As long as the Thunderbird people provide Lightning-Updates as Addon,
this method IS update proof. (But nobody knows, how long they will do
that because officially Lightning is shipped as part of Thunderbird
now.)
This method may work for the next months(years?) but you are right: We
finally need
Use your Eyes, Elbarbudo!!! :-)
Newest Thunderbird version in Ubuntu 18.04 is 60.4.0 and
lightning-6.2.5-sm+tb.xpi requires at least 60.5. You need
lightning-6.2.4-sm+tb.xpi (or an older one depending on your
Thunderbird) - all aviable on the same website.
Two ways to get it right:
- Check your
All relevant Lightning versions for current Thunderbird 60.x have been
uploaded to Thunderbird addons page:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/lightning
So localized Lightning can be downloaded and installed again.
I can confirm this workaround is working!
Let this never ending
As nobody seems to care for this bug, I also think Lightning translation
will be broken forever. :-(
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I don't see any progress here. Meanwhile some corresponding Bugs at
Thunderbird's Bugzilla have been closed because this localization issue
is a packaging problem and they decided not to provide any new
(localized) Lightning versions via AddOn functionality because they
already ship it with
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/candidates/6.2b6-candidates/build1
/linux-x86_64/
here you only get betas of Lightning and not the final versions. And
also no automated updates at all. So this can only be a temporary
limited workaround.
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The Thunderbird people don't provide current Lightning versions in their
AddOn repository anymore because they integrated Lightning in their
Thunderbird builds. It is a real shame that this localization issue
persists for nearly one decade now. Because of this shortcoming (missing
translations for
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