[Oneiric-Topic] Firefox translations in Launchpad/Language packs

[Micah Gersten]

On 04/07/2011 09:57 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Chris Coulson [2011-04-07  9:25 +0100]:
>> - This means that Firefox will output xpi's for every language in the
>> future (not just for en-US). We either need to package these in to
>> dedicated language packs for Firefox (e.g., firefox-locale-foo)
> I. e. build separate binaries from the firefox source? This would
> certainly work and make the process a lot easier, too. We can then
> integrate it into the existing language-selector framework.
>
I this is a good idea so that Firefox security upgrades aren't blocked
on new language packs.
>> - Note that searchplugins are shipped independently of the xpi's. If
>> we are going to be shipping Firefox translations with our language
>> packs (as we do currently), this would mean Launchpad would need a
>> mechanism for importing and exporting the searchplugins alongside the
>> xpi's too.
> As they are so small, wouldn't it be much easier to just ship them all
> in the firefox.deb, as they come from upstream anyway?

This is another reason why generating firefox-locale-foo would be good. 
Otherwise, we'd be adding ~3MB to the main firefox package.

Micah