No localization available for Thunderbird Lightning (open bug since early 2010!)

[Joe]

Don't know about localizations, but For Thunderbird bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Joe

On 12/29/18 11:13 PM, Rolando Gorgs wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I hope you all had a nice Christmas.
> As I don't see any progress regarding this topic for one month now -
> here and on Launchpad - I assume that this mailing list was the wrong
> place to ask. Would anyone please point me to the right go-to
> direction for Thunderbird bugs or in general broken translations in
> Ubuntu? Thanks a lot for your help!
>
> Regards
> Rolando Gorgs
>
> Am Fr., 30. Nov. 2018 um 01:40 Uhr schrieb Rolando Gorgs
> <rolando.gorgs at gmail.com <mailto:rolando.gorgs at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hello together,
>
>     this is my first mail on this list because I don't want to
>     escalate 'small' things that could better be solved within
>     launchpad, but I really think this very long lasting bug should be
>     brought to your attention:
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/545778
>
>     Since I remember the localization of Lightning - the Thunderbird
>     Calendar - in Ubuntu is broken (better to say: not present). In
>     Ubuntu wikis all over the world the recommended (dirty) workaround
>     has ever been to avoid the official xul-ext-lightning package and
>     instead install Lightning via Thunderbird Addon functionality.
>
>     This workaround often caused problems in the past because the
>     Lightning versions provided by Thunderbird Addons and the
>     installed Thunderbird from ubuntu packages didn't fit together.
>
>     Some months ago the Thunderbird people finally decided to
>     distribute lightning (and its localization) as integrated part of
>     their official downloadable thunderbird install package. Because
>     of this they stopped the distribution of separate lightning
>     packages via Addons.
>
>     At this time there is no practical way to have Thunderbird +
>     Lightning completely translated in Ubuntu! The thunderbird
>     localization of ubuntu doesn't include lightning translation and
>     xul-ext-lightning has no localization too. The only way to get a
>     working and localized Lightning is to download the official
>     Thunderbird package from www.thunderbird.net
>     <http://www.thunderbird.net>, extract the installer and copy the
>     included (translated) lightning addon into the right sub folder of
>     your own thunderbird. (And those steps have to be repeated
>     manually for every new Thunderbird/Lightning version!)
>
>     Please (PLEASE) find a solution for this. The bugreport I linked
>     above is nearly nine years old but the problem itself exists even
>     longer. I don't see any progress here and I think this is due to
>     misunderstanding and confusion where the localization of lightning
>     has to take place. In my opinion the best solution would be to
>     integrate lightning completely into the ubuntu thunderbird package
>     as the Thunderbird people did and then provide the translation as
>     part of thunderbird localization. But I'm neither developer nor
>     package maintainer. Perhaps a separate xul-ext-lightning +
>     separate localization is the better way. But please do something! :-)
>
>     Thanks for time and your attention!
>
>     Golando Gorgs
>
>