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

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:53:31AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > (...)
> These points all seem legitimate to me.  What we're saying with the
> three points above is something like: extensions SHOULD be deployed in
> /usr/{lib,share}/mozilla/extensions/common/${em:id}, and MUST be
> symlinked from that location if they do not reside there already.

I'm not even sure we need a must here either. As long as all locations
exist and are not dangling symbolic links.

> > (...)
> Ugh.  This sounds likely to be correct to me, though i've never dug into
> the details of the langpacks or other branding-specific add-ons.  Is
> there no way for a langpack to say internally "i'm only for iceweasel,
> not for firefox"?

Iceweasel and Firefox share the same application-id (which is why
Firefox extensions don't need changes to work on Iceweasel)

Mike