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

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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.

iceweasel -app application.ini.

Mike