1432781 - Snap 59.0b3 is not localized anymore

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation: Other, defect)

Description

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Found by Olivier. After installing the latest Snap, Firefox remains in en-US even though the OS locale is different.

I checked : this is a regression from the latest beta build (58.0b16). :Pike 59 changed the way the OS locale is detected (bug 1414390). We now have to define
> intl.locale.requested=""
in distribution.ini. We can also remove intl.locale.matchOS.

I tested both changes, I managed to see a fr-FR Firefox on a fr-FR Ubuntu.

Comment 1

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [mozilla-partners/canonical] Set pref "intl.locale.requested"

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Thanks for testing this.

Do we use the partner repo to build older versions? Like chemspills or ESR?

If so, I would suggest to add the new pref, and let the matchOS pref around until we don't ship a pre-59 version anywhere anymore.

Comment 3

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #2)
> Do we use the partner repo to build older versions? Like chemspills or ESR?
Not at the moment. Snap have never officially been shipped. We've been building betas, so far. Thank you for the suggestion, though :)

Comment 4

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Comment on attachment 8945072 [details] [review]
[mozilla-partners/canonical] Set pref "intl.locale.requested"

Was r+d and merge by :mkaply on GitHub.