137494 - German language pack (de-AT) does not work for "nightlies" with WIN98SE

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: de / German, defect)

Description

[Rainer Bielefeld]

It seems (nearly) impossible to use a german language pack for nightlies, what
causes unfortunally, that it is impossible to check progress in bugfixing for
bugs influenced by the language-packs.

Language packs are provided with hints like "works only with Nightly Build
2002-04-13-04", but unfortunately allways that special trunk never is available
for windows. 

Only one time (at app. 20 tests) I was more or less successful with a trunk
numbered nearby the requkired trunk. In all other cases I could select the
language Pack, but without Influence to the appearance. 

How can I find a Build for a language pack that "works only for  Nightly Build
2002-04-13-04" ?

As far as I see, several other interested german unsers with WIN have the same
Problem.

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->pack maintainer

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

Wir hatten ja diesbezüglich schon E-Mail-Verkehr...

Ich hab jetzt zu diesem Punkt auch ein FAQ-Item geschrieben:
http://www.kairo.at/mozilla/faq.html#NightlyXPI

Dies ist auch jetzt von der Startseite unter dem Punkt "XPI Nightly Language
Pack" bzw. der Warnung darunter verlinkt.

Hilft der Text weiter?

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

BTW, "Austria/de-at" is the wrong name for the language pack.

Now that non-German people are CCed here, I'll better write English ;-)

Comment 4

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Reply to #2
I know link http://www.kairo.at/mozilla/faq.html#NightlyXPI,
but here the described tricks do not help (but may be, there is a common reason?

Would it be possible to make a special german language pack vor an existing
windows build for test affairs? actually, I do not see any possibility that I
would create my own language pack for this.

I will also try the link ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 5

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Still no success although I tried several builds.

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

During packing RC1 XPIs, I saw my XPIs had some small problems and I corrected
everything I could find.
This also means, that Windows doesn't need a restart now before switching those
packs as a nice side effect.

Please try this again with a currently available Nightly XPI Pack, I hope you
can apply it now...

Comment 7

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Today successful with German Language Pack (www.kairo.at) for
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
But with several obstacles: had to reboot the PC for several times and to
activate first the contents-pack and then the language-pack, otherwise to success.

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

btw, on the trunk, this is currently blocked by 142623

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

Marking this fixed because it works since some time ago (with the workaround for
bug 142623 that fails some times and we still have to kill XUL.mf[as]l then).

Comment 10

[Sebastian Späth]

verified