thunderbird says language-packs are not compatible any more

[Bazon]

Since todays update to mozilla-thunderbird (1.5.0.2-0ubuntu1), Thunderbird says the language packs (in my case: thunderbird-locale-de (1:1.5.0.2ubuntu1-1) and tunderbird-locale-en-gb (1:1.5.0.2ubuntu1-1)) are not compatible and therefore disabled.

Running english language you won't see a difference, but you will in any other language: Thunderbird starts in english.

In Tools > Extensions you see the language packs are disabled.

[Maurizio Moriconi (bugman)]

It's happen in italian language too.

[Antonio (netbix)]

I have same problem with italin language.

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

Same for french language pack.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

The language packs have all been updated to match the current Tbird package, so if you update and upgrade again (and restart thunderbird) all should be well.

[Bazon (bazonbloch)]

Am I the only one for who those updated language packs still haven't arrived?
(although sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade, using standard repos [but german mirrors, "deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted" and so on...])

[Maurizio Moriconi (bugman)]

Bazon: no, i have upgrade today and the problem still continue, i suppose the fix will arrive in a few days.

[Bazon (bazonbloch)]

BTW:
If you want to "fix" it yourself, it's easy:
Exit Thunderbird.
Edit /<email address hidden>/install.rdf
where XX stands for your language.
find this line:
<em:maxVersion>1.5.99/em:maxVersion>
and add the missing '<':
<em:maxVersion>1.5.99</em:maxVersion>

Open Thunderbirds Profile folder (~/.mozilla-thunderbird/qwertz.default) and rename the extensions.rdf (to backup it, it is regenerated automatic at TB start.)

Start Thunderbird. Language Pack should work again.

[antoine (antoine-)]

I have the same problem
thunderbird is in english, it is not possible to choose french

antoine@Frankenstein:~$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installé : 17.0.5+build1-0ubuntu1
  Candidat : 17.0.5+build1-0ubuntu1
 Table de version :
 *** 17.0.5+build1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
antoine@Frankenstein:~$ apt-cache policy thunderbird-locale-fr
thunderbird-locale-fr:
  Installé : 1:17.0.5+build1-0ubuntu1
  Candidat : 1:17.0.5+build1-0ubuntu1
 Table de version :
 *** 1:17.0.5+build1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status