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To make a non-core language pack in 2.5 is quite different from making a Core pack.

http://docs.joomla.org/Making_a_Language_Pack_for_Joomla_1.6

The type of package is a "file" type.

Here is a typical xml including installing ini files into the administrator and site CORE default language folders for one language and one extension only. Many languages and many extensions can be included.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<extension type="file" version="2.5" method="upgrade">
	<name>lang_extension_name_fr-FR</name>
	<author>French Translation Team</author>
	<creationDate>24 Janvier 2012</creationDate>
	<copyright>(C) 2005-2012 Whoever</copyright>
	<license>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GNU/GPL</license>
	<authorEmail>info@whoever</authorEmail>
	<authorUrl>http://www.myextension.org</authorUrl>
	<version>1.0.0</version>
	<description>This fr-FR lang pack for myextension has been installed successfully</description>

	<!-- Fileset definition -->
	<fileset>
		<files folder="admin/fr-FR" target="administrator/language/fr-FR">  <!-- back-end -->
			<filename>fr-FR.com_myextension.ini</filename>
			<filename>fr-FR.com_myextension.sys.ini</filename>
			<filename>fr-FR.plg_system_myextension.ini</filename>
			<filename>fr-FR.plg_system_myextension.sys.ini</filename>
		</files>
		<files folder="site/fr-FR" target="language/fr-FR">  <!-- front-end -->
			<filename>fr-FR.com_myextension.ini</filename>
			<filename>fr-FR.com_myextension.sys.ini</filename>
			<filename>fr-FR.mod_myextension.ini</filename>
			<filename>fr-FR.mod_myextension.sys.ini</filename>
		</files>
	</fileset>
</extension>

The .zip in this case is composed of the xml above and 2 folders: site and admin, each of them containing a fr-FR folder with the ini files.

myextension_fr-FR_install.xml //name can be anything.

site/fr-FR/ + all ini files

admin/fr-FR/ + all ini files

The result is the installation of the ini files in an existing fr-FR folder or creating one if does not exist.

It has no impact on existing files. Uninstalling the "File" pack (Extensions Manager=>Manage=>Filter by "file") will only uninstall the ini files listed.

NOTE: In 2.5, except if one uses a specific script, the language xx-XX folders will always be created if they do not already exist.