Bug#752837: kiwix: build-depends on xulrunner-dev which is gone

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 25/08/14 11:17, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Emilio,
> 
> On  Fr 27 Jun 2014 00:09:08 CEST, pochu wrote:
> 
>> Source: kiwix
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> kiwix build-depends on xulrunner-dev, which is no longer built by
>> src:iceweasel. If you use it for libxul or mozilla-plugin, that is
>> now in iceweasel-dev. If you were using mozilla-js, you may want to
>> look at src:mozjs24.
>>
>> Emilio
> 
> We (Vasudev and I) are currently trying to look into this issue.
> 
> Do you have a clue how the xulrunner binary got replaced in Debian unstable?
> 
> Kiwix gets launches via
> 
> xulrunner-<version> $BINARY_DIR/../lib/kiwix/application.ini "$@"
> 
> But I cannot find anything that replaces the xulrunner-<version> executable in
> unstable at the moment.

I don't know if there is a replacement for that. Cc'ing the iceweasel maintainers.

Emilio