Bug#752837: About to have broken kiwix remove from Debian

[Mike Gabriel]

Below message has gone to Kelson, Renauld, Vasudev and Debian Edu  
Packaging Team ML _and_ to a WRONG bugnumber in the Debian BTS.
-> Thus resending this message for the record to the correct bug (#752837)

Hi Kelson, hi Renauld,
hi Vasudev,

I have spent another hour getting kiwix fixed in Debian and failed.

In Debian testing/unstable there will be no xulrunner binary anymore.  
It gets replaced by "iceweasel -app <inifile>".

I have tried to patch that change into the current code base we have  
been recommended by Kelson [1] and the patching of autoconf/automake  
files fails. It is not possible to run autoreconf on the kiwix source  
tree. So basically, the current Git snapshot of Kiwix we have is sort  
of a mess and not usable at all.

We have kept the broken kiwix in Debian far too long. If you cannot  
provide a source tree of kiwix that fullfills the following  
requirements within the next two weeks, I will file a removal request  
for kiwix against ftp.debian.org.

The requirements for a new source snapshot (or release) I have are these:

    o calling autoreconf must work on the sources
    o the sources must not contain any build-crufted files  
(Makefile.in, config.*, configure, etc.)
    o the replacement of xulrunner by iceweasel must be implemented by upstream

Let me know if this is feasible for you (so I can file the removal  
request right away). If you provide me with working sources by Oct.  
10th 2014, I will do my best to get Kiwix into Debian jessie. If not,  
then not.

Greets,
Mike

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/kiwix.git/


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