incomplete branding in Esperanto locale

[Hendrik Lönngren]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0-branding

I have intrepid with the latest firefox (3.0.8) and firefox-3.0-branding 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2. Firefox’s titlebar says “Mozilla Firefox” in every locale (including "C") except Eperanto (eo.UTF-8 / eo_XX.UTF-8), where it says “Minefield” although it’s clearly not minefield but an official release. “About Firefox” in the help menu reads “Pri Minefield”. However, the firefox logo and the About dialog are correctly showing firefox, not minefield.

Esperanto locale had to be created using localedef as suggested in bug #23435 before it could be used at all. But many programs work well with that newly created locale, including firefox – except the branding.

[Hendrik Lönngren (hendrik0)]

OK, now things have become clear. This is a langpacks issue, and as it seems not a bug.

After my Esperanto language pack had expired some time ago, I searched for a new version and found a site that directed me to http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.9.0-l10n/linux-xpi/eo.xpi, which replaced “Minefield” by “Gran Paradiso”, whereas in all other languages it still was “Mozilla Firefox”. But after tracking down the issue, I replaced the langpack by http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.11/linux-i686/xpi/eo.xpi, which acts as expected.