Bug#579950: Localization support for iceowl-extension request

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi Paul,
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 08:13:12PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> 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.
Yes. I recommend using git-import-dsc to import the current iceowl-l10n
package and work on from there. 
> 
> > 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.
Great!
> 
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
> 
> BTW: Enigmail is broken in unstable and the locales where removed from
> unstable in 2007.
Yept. But for enigmail itself anything is in place to upload a working
version. Might help to ping the maintainer again.
 -- Guido