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

[Axel Beckert]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:13:17PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > [...] 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.

Can't find it at the moment, but I remember I once read some mail on
one of the mozilla mailing lists or blogs where someone was claiming
that we're doing it (the heavy patching) wrong and they (Mozilla) do
it right (of course). And IIRC Debian's (IMHO very obvious) symlink
feature was explicitly mentioned.

Will try to find that mail or blog posting, but can't promise
anything.

		Regards, Axel
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