No localizations on ubuntu

[Guybrush88]

With build 16 on kubuntu 11.10 there isn't the possibility to change the language of the game, while on windows it is possible

[David Allwicher (aber)]

Could someone confirm, that this problem persists with the daily builds?
https://code.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/+archive/widelands-daily
If this is fixed in the nightly builds, someone should file a bug against debian, that they should fix their build script. Probably also against ubuntu... :)
I thought this bug was fixed upstream as well...

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Confirmed in Ubuntu 11.10 out of the box, only System language and English is listed as languages. I would assume Debian does the same.

Then installed the dev version PPA, which listed all languages as expected.

To me this looks like an indication that the PPA is packaged somewhat differently than what Debian does. Anyone know if we can provide a patch/suggestion for how to fix it?

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Ok, obviously this problem should be sorted out, but I am not really sure what's causing this. Therefore I have some questions/thoughts.
A) Is this simply bug 752436 again?
B) Would this solved by tweaking options when compiling/packaging Widelands? I so, should we change it so that this works by default, or include some instructions (in the release notes or otherwise) to packagers what they need to do?

[Nasenbaer (nasenbaer)]

No it's most likely not bug 732436 - it's simply that the debian/ ubuntu package of build16 were not complete. The language files were missing. (or maybe that was the problem in build15 and build16 is another) - however other distributions don't have such a problem (just naming Mandriva, Mageia, Fedora, ...) and the deb file of the ppa is working like a charm as well, so... the problem must be on the side of the package build script. And the solution simply is, to take the one from the ppa.

For me this is almost a "fix released" or "won't fix" from Widelands side ;)

[SirVer (sirver)]

At the very least it is Fix committed from our site. We offer a lot more
flexibility to where people but localization and data files than before.
Of course this functionality must be used by the deb builders.

[SirVer (sirver)]

Released in build17-rc1.