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Revision as of 14:06, 27 June 2022
Firefox Langpacks Subpackage
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
Summary
Firefox langpacks, which have been bundled in the Fedora firefox base package until now, will be moved to a firefox-langpacks subpackage.
Owner
- Name: Jens Petersen
- Email: <petersen@redhat.com>
- Name: Martin Stransky
- Email: <mstransky@redhat.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora Linux 37
- Last updated: 2022-06-27
- FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
The firefox packages carries many langpacks containing translations and other localization data for different countries and languages. This Change will move them to a separate subpackage pulled in as a weak dependency by the base package.
Feedback
Initial discussion: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035178
Benefit to Fedora
This makes Fedora a little more modular: going forward it will be possible to install firefox without having to have all the langpacks installed too.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Update Rawhide firefox to add the langpacks subpackage (PR)
- Other developers: none
- Release engineering: #10858
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Alignment with Objectives:
Upgrade/compatibility impact
When upgrading to Fedora 37, firefox's new weak dependency will pull in the firefox-langpacks subpackage, so users should not experience any change by default.
How To Test
- install firefox and check that firefox-langpacks gets pulled in
- test that firefox's langpacks are functioning normally
- test upgrade from F36 to F37 and ensure that the firefox-langpacks subpackage gets installed.
User Experience
Users will have a new firefox-langpacks subpackage installed by default. If they don't require localization they can remove it and benefit from lighter firefox updates and save about 50MB of diskspace.
Dependencies
None
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: proposal owners will revert firefox.spec to not subpackage langpacks
- Contingency deadline: before final freeze
- Blocks release? No
Documentation
None
Release Notes
Firefox's langpacks have been moved to a subpackage for greater install flexibility.