[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just a small brain dump to the xulrunner extension lintian tests.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:16:46PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > > I have a lintian check that checks most of the policy,
> 
> Cool!
> 
> > > > except it was written before lintian 2.3 and doesn't work
> > > > anymore.
> 
> :-(
> 
> > > > If someone has the time to update the script before me, I'll
> > > > send it to them.
> 
> No idea of how lintian checks worked before and now (yet).

Apparently, I got it to work again, the required changes were small.
I don't know where to put it, though.

> > > What will be checked by that?
> > 
> > The current tags are:
> > [...]
> > Tag: contains-xulrunner-stub
> 
> That will be a good test for Debian, but I fear it could cause
> problems on Ubuntu. BTW, I expect xulrunner-stub symbolic links as
> with IIRC iceweasel are fine for that test.
> 
> Or is it only for real extensions and not for xulrunner applications?

It is for xulrunner applications. We definitely do *not* want the stub
to be copied in packages at least in Debian, and Ubuntu should *really*
consider the same. We already have to endure the standalone glue
compiled statically for embedding applications, let's just not spread
that any further.

Mike