Bug#665817: iceweasel: locale search plugins not found in 11.0-3

[Mike Hommey]

retitle 665817 Search plugins from en-US should be used when there are no $general.useragent.locale ones.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:13:27PM +0100, Jonathan McCrohan wrote:
> On 26/03/12 14:53, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Mmmm that looks normal. What does "find /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/"
> 
> jmccroha at omega:~$ find /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-GB
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-GB/wikipedia.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-GB/eBay-en-GB.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-GB/chambers-en-GB.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-GB/amazon-en-GB.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-GB/google.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-GB/yahoo-en-GB.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-GB/bing.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/wikipedia.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/twitter.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/yahoo.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/amazondotcom.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/google.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/eBay.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/bing.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/duckduckgo.xml
> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/debsearch.xml
> 
> 
> > say? What does "ls -l /usr/lib/iceweasel/distribution/" say?
> 
> jmccroha at omega:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/iceweasel/distribution/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 23 13:48 searchplugins -> /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins
> 
> > What iceweasel-l10n-* packages did you install?
> 
> Ah. I have never installed any l10n packages, but I have my
> general.useragent.locale set to en-GB. Installing 
> iceweasel-l10n-en-gb fixes this.
> 
> Previously though, en-US searchplugins were shown regardless of my
> locale setting. It would be preferable for Iceweasel to show the en-US
> ones rather than none at all in the event of a misconfiguration such as
> this; Either that or an appropriate iceweasel-l10n-* package should be
> suggested.

On the other hand, you shot yourself in the foot by setting
general.useragent.locale without having the corresponding
localization...

Mike