Make a single source package for all mozilla-*-locale packages? (Was: [Re: Bug#273420: ITP: mozilla-firefox-locale-sv -- Mozilla Firefox Swedish Language/Region Package])

[Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>]

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:

> I agree too. Actually, it makes more sense if we do a single package and
> integrate there mechanisms to extract the needed files from xpis to
> generate mozilla-locale-* packages instead of having each maintainer devise 
> its own (as well as redoing the registration of the packages in mozilla as 
> documented at [1])
>
> Moreover, somebody (a packaging group) could just package the locale
> definitions available for Mozilla [2], Firefox [3] and Thunderbird [3], 
> update them from time to time and update them whenever a new release is 
> produced. That would avoid all the bugs related to XXXX-locale-YYY 
> packages not allowing transitions of new Mozilla|Firefox|Thunderbird 
> versions because they have not been updated and having the binary package 
> proceed into testing would break them.
>
> I believe that's actually how Mozilla is integrated in other OS, for 
> example, in Solaris IIRC.
>  
I think, that this would not be too hard to implement. On the other
hand, there would still be problems that some translations might not be
ready if mozilla* packages become ready to go in. IMHO, doing so looks like
a trick to declare translations not to be release critical and in fact
inferior to normal packages.

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