Scottish Gaelic gone after update

[GunChleoc]

I run Firefox both on Windows and Ubuntu. On Windows, after every update, the Scottish Gaelic language pack (gd) is at 100%, so the locale translators are definitely keeping up.

On Ubuntu 14.04, Firefox is always littered with English language strings. This week, after an update Firefox switched to 100% English.

I suspect that something's not working with your upstream coordination; could you please look into this?

Thanks.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report.

Previously firefox-locale-XX was a "recommend" in the language-pack-XX-base packages. That recommend was dropped last year, and as regards 14.04 it happened via an update after the initial release. This ought to explain why the firefox translations disappeared after an update. (You probably run "sudo apt-get autoremove".) So it was a one-off incident.

The coverage of the Scottish Gaelic translations in firefox is an upstream matter, and thus not an Ubuntu bug. I see that you are a member of the Scottish Gaelic translation team in Ubuntu, so you may want to get involved in the translation of firefox as well.

Closing this bug.

[Akerbeltz (fios)]

The English in the UI was never a result of lack of localization over at Mozilla, gd has been fully translated and maintained since 2012.

However, I'm not seeing the problem these days on my system (also set to gd) so perhaps the change you mentioned resolved this issue, so closing the bug seems reasonable.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Thanks for looking into this :)

Another localization issue I have is that the gd hunspell package recognizes a lot less words than in Windows - I filed a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hunspell/+bug/1495024 but I don't know if this is the correct place for it.

What do the package maintainers need to do to make sure that the current versions are included in Ubuntu?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Please see the other bug report about hunspell-gd.