1489843 - Czech language pack missing for Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1490598

(Mozilla Localizations :: cs / Czech, enhancement)

Description

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

addons.thunderbird.net is missing Czech language pack. It's not listed on https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/language-tools/ and also the old link https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/thunderbird/addon/czech-cz-language-pack-thunder/ stopped working.

Note: if you change the product from /thunderbird/ to /firefox/, you can get the language pack for 52.0 from AMO (https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/firefox/addon/czech-cz-language-pack-thunder/).

Comment 1

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

:fallen, may this be related to AMO -> addons.thunderbird.net migration?

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

This is likely, I am not quite sure how language tools work to be honest. My understanding is that the Firefox/Thunderbird build does something magical to update the language packs. Maybe TheOne can give us a short summary when he is available again. rjl can then help out if this is needs adjustment in the build process.

Comment 3

[Andreas Wagner [:TheOne] [use NI]]

As far as I know, you need to set a target locale in the developer hub of the add-on for it to show up on the language tools page.

Comment 4

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

Well it seems is not on addons.thunderbird.net at all in the first place, only on AMO.

Comment 5

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Bug 1490598 documents a general problem with addons.thunderbird.net and language packs.

In the meantime, the Czech language pack can be downloaded and installed from archive.mozilla.org at:
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.2.1/linux-x86_64/xpi/cs.xpi

You still need to manually activate the language pack: (I don't know, just passing this along in case)

1. Go to Thunderbird's Options.
2. Go to "Advanced" > "General"
3. Open the "Config Editor" and confirm the warning.
4. Right-click the list and choose "New" > "String".
5. Use as name intl.locale.requested and set the value to de
6. Close Thunderbird and launch it again.

Comment 7

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

The language packs are often used for:
- portable version of TB
- Linux distros if they do not provide langpack as a package in their repository
- if someone installs English version of TB and consider installing different version not-safe or too difficult
- or if they simply do not know it is possible (usually other sw allows to switch languages seamlessly compared to TB).

Comment 8

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

Sorry, wrong bug. :)