#483123 Should be able to cope with out of date language packs

Package:
iceweasel
Source:
firefox-esr
Submitter:
Sam Morris
Date:
2021-05-27 23:09:12 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#483123#5
Date:
2008-05-27 09:55:08 UTC
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Since upgrading to rc1, Iceweasel will not work. When run, it opens a
window that says:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Line Number 242, Column 5:
    <key                          key="&fullZoomReduceCmd.commandkey2;"  command="cmd_fullZoomReduce"  modifiers="accel"/>
----^
#483123#10
Date:
2008-05-27 10:24:33 UTC
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clone 483123 -1
reassign -1 iceweasel-l10n-en-gb
severity 483123 important
retitle 483123 Should be able to cope with out of date lanaguage packs
thanks

Thanks to Mike Hommey who helped track this down to the
iceweasel-l10n-en-gb package.

Iceweasel should really be able to cope with this, instead of presenting
the user with a totally incomprehensible error message that they will
have no chance of figuring out without buing a mozilla expert.
#483123#15
Date:
2008-06-04 10:19:53 UTC
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I`ve got the same result with iceweasel-l10n-uk-ua.
Starting iceweasel with LANG=C resolves problem.

Excuse me my bad English.
#483123#20
Date:
2008-06-05 00:00:56 UTC
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Same issue with iceweasel-l10n-pl.

Regards.
#483123#25
Date:
2008-06-05 14:08:40 UTC
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Same with de and es-ar.
#483123#30
Date:
2008-06-05 19:13:53 UTC
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Same issue with iceweasel-l10n-ru
#483123#35
Date:
2008-06-11 09:30:13 UTC
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package iceweasel
found 483123 3.0~rc2-1
thanks

Hi,

I get the same error under 3.0~rc2-1 and with l10n-fr

Regards,

Didier
#483123#46
Date:
2008-06-12 08:56:54 UTC
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Le mercredi 11 juin 2008 22:32:32 Mike Hommey, vous avez écrit :

Hi,

I don't think that a completely unuseable package leads to "wishlist", but I
respect your point of view and won't play BTS ping-pong (as I'm no DD...).

Anyway, I think that the triggered error should at least inform the user about
the error (just mention "warning, your language package is out of date,
Iceweasel won't work correctly" would be enough) because without that, we are
just lost with broken and not working iceweasel.

Another solution is to detect the error and restart as "LANG=C iceweasel"
which is at least useable.

The last (but not least) would be to conflict with too old language packages.
This would elegantly solve the bug.

Best regards,
OdyX
#483123#51
Date:
2008-06-12 09:03:07 UTC
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The fact is the problem is with the way the *experimental* packages for
language packs implemented dependencies onto iceweasel. It's useless to
add conflicts with old *experimental* language packages, when there are
so many of them and when they will obviously be fixed when newer versions
are uploaded to unstable. People using only unstable won't have any problem,
and people upgrading from etch won't have problems either.

This is an interim problem, only due to *experimental* packages. I don't
want to clutter iceweasel for experimental issues.

Now, for the rest of the possible "workarounds" *that* is a wishlist item,
since dependencies already should be doing their work to avoid these issues
in the first place.

Mike
#483123#56
Date:
2008-06-12 09:16:27 UTC
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Le jeudi 12 juin 2008 11:03:07 Mike Hommey, vous avez écrit :

ACK. Many thanks for the explanation.

OdyX
#483123#61
Date:
2008-06-13 07:50:11 UTC
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To:
severity 483123 important
thanks

On 23:13 Thu 05 Jun     , Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
DEO> Same issue with iceweasel-l10n-ru

please, add record 'Conflict: iceweasel-l10n (<3.0)'
to debian/control
#483123#74
Date:
2021-05-27 23:06:34 UTC
From:
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Greeting to you once again



I am writing for the second time as I did not receive any reply from you to
my previous message.



Kindly reply so we can discuss the subject as soon as possible.



Sincerely,



Andy Landman