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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:22:31PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:16:46PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > > > I have a lintian check that checks most of the policy,
> 
> Apparently, I got it to work again, the required changes were small.
> I don't know where to put it, though.

To put it so lintian recognizes it as some of their own tests?

What about just filing a wishlist bug against lintian to include them?

> > > 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,

Fully agree.

> and Ubuntu should *really* consider the same.

Sure, but I'm also quite sure that they won't since upstream considers
the needed feature (xulrunner-stub symlink support) for this a no-no
(IIRC) and AFAIK they want to stay as close to upstream as possible.

Well, I guess Ubuntu will have to patch lintian then... I'm sure they
have to do it in many other places anyway.

		Regards, Axel
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