[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] XUL Extensions policy directory question

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:56:14AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 14.11.2009, 12:38 +0100 schrieb Mike Hommey:
> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:14:28PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > why should the directory /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common/$foo be
> > > used for extension $foo? Is there something special about this
> > > directory? Would it be possible to use /usr/share/$foo instead?
> > 
> > Actually, this shouldn't be /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common/$foo,
> > but /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common/${foo:id} where ${foo:id} is
> > the em:id you can find in then extension install.rdf.
> > 
> > The reason why this was put there is that when
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448260 is implemented,
> > we will be able to have a canonical location, and no symlinks.
> 
> Currently mozilla-devscript does the symlinking for me. It puts the
> files for extension $foo into /usr/share/$foo and all symlinks can point
> there.
> 
> I think the policy should not force to put the extension content
> into /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common/${foo:id} or the existing of
> this directory.

Yes, it very much should, because it is the canonical place where
extensions will live in the future, without any other links.