About the language pack

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:54:34PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> >>>> However, i've found theses repositories unusable because there
> >>>> aren't language packs included. I know how to translate the software
> >>>> with the XPI provided by mozilla but i have to do the manipulation
> >>>> everytime a new release appears. Is there anyway to automatically
> >>>> update language pack with new release ? could you provide an
> >>>> "iceweasel-l10n-xx" package in the repos ?
> >> 
> >>> I'm seriously considering making l10n packages part of the iceweasel
> >>> source package. Dmitry, would you mind if I did so?
> >> 
> >> It would be nice, but I want to patch russian l10n variant.
> >> 
> >> Our Yandex gave money to mozilla and they have set it as the
> >> first search engine.
> >> It is the worst engine, so I've moved it to the second place.
> >> 
> >> If You do so, please give me permissions to apply my patches :)
> 
> > I'm sure we'll figure out something.
> 
> > I was taking a look at the difference between the locales actually
> > available from mozilla, and the ones provided by iceweasel-l10n. The
> > following are *not* available from mozilla:
> > - as
> > - dz-BT
> > - fa-IR
> > - fur-IT
> > - ka
> > - ne-NP
> > - oc
> 
> > Are they outdated in the package or are you taking them from somewhere
> > else?
> 
> They outdated.  There is no their upstream now.
> 
> One day I had excluded them, then their users asked me
> to include these packages back. They said that they worked fine.
> There is no their upstream now. So I think we can exclude them about
> the first their bugreport.

Seeing the various brokenness that came with 7.0 with the 6.0 locales,
I doubt these locales are even usable.

Mike