Please remove ca-valencia.xpi from the Catalan language pack

[David Planella]

Binary package hint: language-pack-ca-base

User impact:

A while ago we added the Catalan Valencian variant (ca-valencia.xpi) Firefox xpi to the main Catalan language pack. The idea was that users wishing to use it wouldn't have to manually install it, and it made sense to ship the ca-valencia.xpi translations along with ca.xpi, following the current practice of shipping the ca@valencia PO translations along with the ca ones.

However, it seems that due to a problem with how Firefox handles locales makes some systems with the main ca_ES@UTF-8 locale display the ca-valencia translations.

This effectively means that in a fully localized Catalan system Firefox appears in the Catalan (Valencian) variant.

While this is not a critical bug in technical terms, it is a sensitive subject for speakers of both variants, hence in order to avoid conflicts, I'm filing this SRU.

How has the bug been addressed in the development release:

Firefox's ca-valencia.xpi translations have not yet been imported in the development release, and since we'll probably have to import new translations for all languages during the release cycle, we can just drop the existing ca-valencia.xpi file from langpack-o-matic/po2xpi for now.

TEST CASE:

1. Log into a session with the ca_ES@UTF-8 locale
2. Observe all applications using 'ca' translations
3. Start Firefox
4. Observe Firefox using 'ca-valencia' translations instead of 'ca' (an easy to spot difference is on the top level "Adreces d'interès" menu, where for 'ca-valencia' is "Adreces d'interés")

Possible regressions:

By removing the ca-valencia language pack from Firefox, users that had explicitly chosen to use it will fall back to the main Catalan variant, which they can perfectly read and can still install the ca-valencia.xpi add-on from addons.mozilla.org as they did before this change.

To sum up, this is is a request to simply remove ca-valencia.xpi from the the Catalan language pack (language-pack-ca-base) until we figure out why Firefox cannot cope with both locales.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: language-pack-ca-base 1:11.04+20110421
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 3 12:36:04 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110319)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ca:en
 LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-pack-ca-base
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Pau Iranzo (paugnu)]

Hi,

I had the same problem: even my locale was set to ca_ES@utf8, the Valencian variant was selected by default on Firefox.

Once I removed the ca-valencia firefox language pack, everything went ok. This may be a Firefox locale problem...

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Removed in my po2xpi branch, will ask Chris to merge.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Merged po2xpi change to trunk, and rolled out to langpack building host.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Next full natty langpack rebuild will get this.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Not relevant for oneiric. po2xpi does not and will not have data for oneiric and above, see https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-firefox-translations-in-launchpad .

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted language-pack-ca-base into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[David Planella (dpm)]

Thanks a lot Martin!,

We'll start testing them now. I've got another question: we tested the -proposed Maverick language packs a while ago, and we could not sign them off due to this exact same problem.

May I ask you to add a nomination for Maverick and apply the same fix (i.e. removing ca-valencia.xpi) to the current Catalan base language pack in maverick-proposed?

[David Planella (dpm)]

The Catalan community has tested the natty-proposed language pack, left the feedback at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/LanguagePackUpdatesQA and given the update a thumbs up.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package language-pack-ca-base - 1:11.04+20110421.1

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language-pack-ca-base (1:11.04+20110421.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

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[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted language-pack-ca-base into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

A new set of langpacks was accepted into maverick-proposed. Please test that instead. Thanks!

[David Planella (dpm)]

Martin, it seems that the new full Maverick langpacks in -proposed still contain the ca-valencia xpi files.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Argh, the ca-valencia.xpi reappeared on the langpack building machine. I removed it, and uploaded new ca-base/ca langpacks to maverick-proposed, can you please test again?

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

Now that Lucid+ uses only upstream translations this is no longer relevant.