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

[Emmanuel Engelhart]

Hi Mike

Thank you very much for your patience and effort to keep Kiwix running 
on Debian. The work generated by the deletion of xulrunner related 
packages is not trivial. We have had already a look to this at the time 
xulrunner was removed from Ubuntu.

Therefore, without a compilation/gecko wizard being able to fix it 
within the next weeks, I don't think kiwix is going to survive in the 
Debian repository... for now.

It's of course sad, it has always been important for us to be in Debian. 
But, Kiwix development is alive and I hope this step backward will be at 
anytime forgotten by two steps forward, and we will see then Kiwix back 
in Debian.

Regards
Emmanuel

On 25.09.2014 10:48, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> 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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