Please remove ca-valencia.xpi from the Catalan language pack
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu Translations |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
po2xpi |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Martin Pitt | ||
language-pack-ca-base (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: language-
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-
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-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: language-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 3 12:36:04 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110319)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ca:en
LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
- Chris Coulson: Pending requested
-
Diff: 2 lines (+0/-0)0 files modified
Changed in po2xpi: | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in language-pack-ca-base (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
Changed in language-pack-ca-base (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in language-pack-ca-base (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Martin Pitt (pitti) → nobody |
Changed in language-pack-ca-base (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
tags: | added: testcase |
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...