[tor-bugs] #27466 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Investigate single-locale language repacks for Tor Browser on desktop

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#27466: Investigate single-locale language repacks for Tor Browser on desktop
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  tbb-
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     Type:  task                                 |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  TorBrowserTeam201811,                |  Actual Points:
  GeorgKoppen201812                              |
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Changes (by gk):

 * cc: boklm (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:2 gk]:
 > This seems to be requiring mercurial and not git to get the l10n
 sources. I wonder if we could cheat here (or do the whole transition in a
 multi-step approach) and use the downloaded and verified language packs
 pointing the repackaging machinery to the unzipped strings instead of a
 mercurial repo...

 This is actually not a problem. We are about to do this for the mobile
 multi language bundle (see: #26483). In fact, looking at the related
 documentation there should be an option available to provide such a one-
 bundle-including-all-locale for desktop as well. However, I think we
 should not make that move for our desktop platforms but rather stick to
 what Mozilla does, which is the topic of this bug.

 The repackaging is happening during the regular Firefox build and the
 logic around it is quite complex. So, I am still thinking about how to do
 this best in our reproducible builds setup. Exporting all the neceassary
 tools and doing the rebundling in the `tor-browser` step (where we are
 currently kind of rebundling by adding our own search engines etc.) is
 likely not easily feasible.

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