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

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:03:50PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> 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?

Well for the moment the descriptions have rough edges, so they would
need review and probably changes before doing that.

> > > > 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.

I'm curious to know why the xulrunner-stub symlink support would be a
no-no.

Mike