1313702 - Consider removing duplicate locale files

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: Android Studio and Gradle Integration, defect, P5)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

The dupe checker script finds a whole bunch of locale files that are duplicates: see Bug 1313640. Android is unique in that our app bundles all of our locales in a single build.

In situations where:

- The file is a duplicate of the en-US version, and
- The calling code falls back to en-US (which is the case for strings and probably most other content)

we can eliminate the per-locale file from the build entirely.

Bug 1313640 indicates that there might be noticeable APK size reductions from doing so.

Comment 1

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau] (back April 22)]

Too late for firefox 52, mass-wontfix.

Comment 2

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

The new L10n API which we're working toward right now gets rid of the notion of "l10n-merge" and in result files will not be duplicated across locales.

Instead, it provides a fallback mechanism which looks up the next locale in case the previous doesn't have a requested resource.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.