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

[Emmanuel Engelhart]

Hi

On 08/25/2014 03:17 AM, 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.
>
> Any idea??? Or did this transition break kiwix completely (it has been
> RC buggy for a while, but we were about to get it fixed two weeks before
> the xulrunner packages got removed from unstable).

Iceweasel seems to be the last survivor:
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=xulrunner&mode=filename&suite=experimental&arch=any

My guess: probably (and like for Ubuntu), Kiwix needs now to embed 
xulrunner (and compile it!!!). I don't know if this is easy to 
copy/paste iceweasel package code.

Regards
Emmanuel