On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:50 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: > On 04/07/2011 09:57 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Chris Coulson [2011-04-07 9:25 +0100]: > >> - This means that Firefox will output xpi's for every language in the > >> future (not just for en-US). We either need to package these in to > >> dedicated language packs for Firefox (e.g., firefox-locale-foo) > > I. e. build separate binaries from the firefox source? This would > > certainly work and make the process a lot easier, too. We can then > > integrate it into the existing language-selector framework. > > > I this is a good idea so that Firefox security upgrades aren't blocked > on new language packs. > >> - Note that searchplugins are shipped independently of the xpi's. If > >> we are going to be shipping Firefox translations with our language > >> packs (as we do currently), this would mean Launchpad would need a > >> mechanism for importing and exporting the searchplugins alongside the > >> xpi's too. > > As they are so small, wouldn't it be much easier to just ship them all > > in the firefox.deb, as they come from upstream anyway? > > This is another reason why generating firefox-locale-foo would be good. > Otherwise, we'd be adding ~3MB to the main firefox package. > > Micah > >
Note that the next firefox-trunk daily build will provide a full set of language packs, including all of the upstream translated search plugins. Regards Chris
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