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Upgrading Firefox-3.0 packages should automatically upgrade incompatible language-pack-LANG packages

Bug #251743 reported by JLR
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Baltix)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Arne Goetje

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I have the default Firefox in Hardy. After updating to the 3.01 version, Firefox menus are on english!(I had it on Spanish)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 25 10:17:55 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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JLR (artirj) wrote :
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

What version of the language-pack-es package do you have installed?

please also try to stop firefox and then do a

 sudo apt-get install --reinstall language-pack-es.

THanks

Changed in firefox-3.0:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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JLR (artirj) wrote :

The version is language-pack-es (1:8.04+20080708)
I tried reinstalling it as you said and it works. Thanks!
This should be done ALWAYS on each firefox update automatically i think.

How can this be patched?

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ClemensBier (clemensbier) wrote :

Hi atri,

I experienced the same behavior today with a fresh install of 8.04.
The problem arises that once you updated Firefox to the newest security release, the
language add-ons from the package "language-pack-gnome-{your language}" are no longer compatible.
You can resolve this by adding the Hardy-proposed repository via the GUI or command line interface
and executing a corresponding upgrade.

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote : Re: Upgrading Firefox-3.0 packages should automatically upgrade incompatible language-pack-gnome-* packages

I'm confirming this bug, as this affects a lot of Ubuntu users. ubuntu-updates repositories should have compatible "language-pack-gnome-{your language}" packages when firefox-3.0 updates are released in ubuntu-security repositories.
Forcing users to add the hardy-proposed repository and manually executing a language-pack-gnome-* upgrade is a nonsense.

I think this problem would be easier to solve if firefox-3.0 translations would be packaged separately, like firefox 2.x translations - why users should be forced to install big GNOME language pack package after each firefox update?

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

agreed, we should release a version that will work for all 3.0 to -security. Arne, can you look into this?

Changed in firefox-3.0:
assignee: nobody → arnegoetje
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

This should be fixed by now with the latest langpack updates in hardy-proposed.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
dino99 (9d9)
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Baltix):
status: New → Fix Released
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