[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] debian package naming conventions for extensions for mozilla-based tools

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Thanks for the followup, intrigeri!

On 06/23/2009 04:53 PM, intrigeri wrote:
> I am somehow used to check whether software XYZ has any packaged
> extensions by typing "apt-cache show XYZ-", then using my shell
> completion features to display the available packages.
> 
> For this reason, and probably some other, less conscious ones, I quite
> like the idea to have all iceweasel extensions in the same namespace.

(un?)fortunately, firegpg should work with both iceweasel and firefox
(and maybe some other browsers?).  Given that our most popular
derivative distro (ubuntu) calls the browser firefox, it seems a little
bit weird to have the package change names when it jumps distros, no?
So which prefix should the extensions use?

Maybe the package is named firegpg but it
   Provides: iceweasel-firegpg, firefox-firegpg

would that work with your tab completion?  (i don't use tab completion
for apt-cache, and i'm not sure what shell you prefer anyway).

Still unsure how to proceed,

	--dkg

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