409805 - ChatZilla langpack file install.rdf is not generated properly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: sk / Slovak, defect)

Description

[Vlado Valastiak [:wladow]]

Install.rdf file in ChatZilla langpacks included in localized SeaMonkey versions is not created properly - it contains several newlines at the beginning of the file. When starting SeaMonkey for the first time, this error message fires:  

"SeaMonkey could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well-formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem."

After clicking OK SeaMonkey loads, but without ChatZilla installed.

When I delete those newlines in langpack file and start SeaMonkey with new profile, it loads correctly with both ChatZilla and langpack installed.

Tested with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; sk; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122502 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

This probably affects install.js file too, it contains several newlines at the beginning too.

Comment 1

[James Ross]

The newlines won't matter to install.js, but install.rdf definately needs fixing.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

Somehow, the Python preprocessor seems to ignore the
|#filter emptyLines| statement (I thought I filed that bug but can't find it
atm) and you need to remove all empty lines from
http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n/source/sk/extensions/irc/defines.inc as those are
exactly the empty lines you see imported in the install.rdf - this is a
language-specific problem until the python preprocessor is fixed.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Preprocessor problem is now filed as bug 409956

Comment 4

[Vlado Valastiak [:wladow]]

Workaround for sk locale checked in.