Bug#579950: Localization support for iceowl-extension request

[Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>]

Guido Günther schreef:
> reassign 579950 iceowl-l10n
> 
> Hi Paul,

Hi Guido,

> On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 04:16:25PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> Please add localization support for iceowl-extension. iceowl-l10n is only for
>> iceowl and not for iceowl-extention.  Please see this bug too:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=436297  It would be nice if it
>> would be clear what's the better way:   1. Change iceowl-l10n so that it can
>> also support iceowl-extention (I think this is not possible)   2. Add
>> localization to iceowl-extension directly (maybe the most easy solution).  3.
>> Make seperate localization packages for iceowl-extension.  I would like to help
>> with it.
> It worked for enigmail - why shouldn't it work for iceowl-extension? 

Because iceowl-l10n is in the first place for iceowl, what needs the
localisation-files on another location then iceowl-extension.

But you are right, it could be done in a new (big) set of binaries from
the iceowl-l10n source package.

> u
> See the install.rdf in that package on how the locale gets registered.

OK, thanks for the info.

> The first step would be to update the iceowl-l10n package which is
> currently unmaintained so help on this would certainly be appreciated.

I will give it a try.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.

BTW: Enigmail is broken in unstable and the locales where removed from
unstable in 2007.