[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] [proposal] XUL Extensions policy additions

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:27:23AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Finally, I wonder if we don't actually need to allow some extensions
> (I'm actually thinking about langpacks) to install directly under
> /usr/lib/appname/extensions. The fact is, we may have 3 different kinds
> of extensions instead of 2:
> - Extensions that work in several applications
> - Extensions that work in one application whatever its branding is
> - Extensions that work in one application and depends on its branding
> IIRC, langpacks *do* include branding. To take an example, iceweasel and
> firefox share the same application id, which is something you'd want, by
> design. But the problem is that if we'd install iceweasel langpacks in
> the /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/iceweasel-appid, firefox would also be
> getting these extensions, that could very well rename some items from
> Firefox to Iceweasel, which is kind of unexpected.
> But maybe I'm just being overzealous, here, and we needn't care.

Similarly, lanpacks should be exempt of the xul-ext- package naming,
IMHO.

Mike