[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Iceowl extension for Icedove 3.0

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:25:17AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:57:45PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:53:14PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:50:45PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I've taken Alexanders 0.9 packages from experimental, removed the iceowl
> > > > standalone build and did some minor tweaks so the package at
> > > > 
> > > >     http://git.debian.org/?p=users/agx/iceowl.git
> > > > 
> > > > now builds an extension that works with the icedove 3.0 packages
> > > > currently in experimental. I'll make prebuilt packages available in the
> > > > pkg-mozext repo as soon as I have more bandwidth available.
> > > 
> > > Why remove the standalone build ?
> > 
> > standalone is dead for 1.0 last i heard.
> 
> Well, the last news I could find is from less than a month ago:
> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2009/12/questions_and_answers_for_the.html
>   There's no release candidate for Sunbird yet. When will that be
>   available?
>   As said in the earlier post we are having problems with our Sunbird
>   build machines. Once those are fixed, we will make a release candidate
>   for Sunbird available.
> 
> So, it doesn't quite look dead (yet).

I will try to hunt the latest status down. If its going to be still
community maintained, then i agree that we should ensure that the
standalone app is also there ... maybe considering splitting
the  source so we dont block iceowl-extensions if the sunbird part is
lagging etc.

Stay tuned ...

 - Alexander