[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] #573250 -- conflict between policy and mozilla-devscripts about file placement

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Samstag, den 13.03.2010, 23:28 -0500 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> On 03/10/2010 05:52 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 17:43 -0500 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> >> On 03/10/2010 04:46 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >>> I think we shouldn't clutter /usr/share and /usr/lib with one directory
> >>> per extension.
> >> That seems like a reasonable concern to me.  What if we used
> >> /usr/share/xul-ext/foo (or /usr/lib/xul-ext/foo for arch-dependent
> >> packages)?  it certainly seems tidier.
> > 
> > Great idea. I like it. Patches are welcome. ;)
> 
> The attached patch to install-xpi works for me (i don't know if any of
> the cdbs stuff needs patching -- i just use straight debhelper).

Applied. The cdbs stuff needs no modification, because it calls only
xpi-install and dh_xul-ext. All logic is in these two tools.

> What's the timeline like for getting a new version of mozilla-devscripts
> with this and with some automated configfile handling?

I was busy with eclipse [1]. I am away this weekend. Release next week
after including configfile handling?

Latest idea:

Create a (nearly) empty file
in /etc/xul-ext/<packagename-without-xul-ext>.js that contains a
commented header describing where to find the config file.
Create a link
in /usr/{share,lib}/xul-ext/<packagename-without-xul-ext>/defaults/preferences/000system.js pointing to /etc/xul-ext/<packagename-without-xul-ext>.js

An updated patch is welcome.

Any objection against this approach?

> I'd like to convert firegpg to mozilla-devscripts if possible, and i've
> got another couple xul-ext packages in the pipeline that i'd like to
> have these features.

Great to hear.

[1] http://overbenny.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/eclipse-3-5-2-1-in-debian-unstable/

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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