[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Policy update

[Benjamin Drung]

Hi,

I request some policy updates:

Filesystem Placement and Linking
================================

I think we should not specify a install location and drop this
paragraph:

Packages shipping extensions for XUL-based applications like iceweasel
or icedove should put unpack the contents of the extension in a folder
in /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common. Packages that also contain
architecture-dependent material should place the architecture-dependent
material in a folder in /usr/lib/mozilla/extensions/common and symlink
to it from the folder under /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common 

The second paragraph

The unpacked extension directory should then be symlinked into the
applications directory of every XUL application that can use the
extension. For example, the package for an extension "fubar" which works
with iceape (app-id {92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}) and
iceweasel (app-id {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}) should drop
links into
both /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/fubar and /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}/fubar, each pointing to /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common/fubar. 

should be changed to

The unpacked extension directory must be symbolic linked into the
applications directory of every XUL application that can use the
extension. For example, the package for an extension "fubar" which works
with iceape (app-id {92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}) and
iceweasel (app-id {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}) must drop
links into
both /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/fubar and /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}/fubar, each pointing to the unpacked extension directory. You can install the extension directly into the applications directory instead of symbolic linking, if the extension supports only one XUL application.

Config Files
============

This section should contain these rules:

      * config files must be put into /etc/xul-ext/fubar.js
        or /etc/xul-ext/fubar/ if more than one file is required
      * config files must be empty or contain only comments
      * place a link in defaults/preferences/ pointing to the each
        config file
      * the symlink names must be the first config file in
        defaults/preferences/ sorted alphabetical

What do you think about these changes?

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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