Separating Mozilla/OO.o language packs [was: Re: Thoughts about separating language packs]

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Paul Sladen [2004-11-11 22:46 +0000]:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Chris Halls [2004-11-11 21:25 +0000]:
> > > > Currently both the mozilla and the OO.o language debs depend on the
> > > > respective main package, i. e. mozilla-firefox-locale-de depends on
> > > > mozilla-firefox.
> > > >
> > > > Instead it would be enough to have e. g. ubuntu-language-de
> > > > depend on mozilla-firefox-locale-de, openoffice.org-l10n-de,
> > > > myspell-de-de and so on.
> > if there is anything that would make this change useful for Debian, too,
> 
> Is it my understanding that the following is what's being suggested? :
> 
>   mozilla-firefox
>     Depends: mozilla-firefox-locale

But this is not true, mozilla-firefox does not depend on a locale
package. The English strings are built in and
Mozilla/FireFox/Thunderbird work fine without a locale package at all.

Martin

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