[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Important changes to mozilla-devscripts

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Freitag, den 19.11.2010, 08:48 +0100 schrieb Mike Hommey:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 01:26:03AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have prepared some changes for mozilla-devscripts that require changes
> > for xul extensions and maybe xul applications. I want to know what you
> > think about these changes. Do you like them, are you against them, or do
> > you have different suggestions?
> > 
> > 1) Move ${xpi:Recommends} to ${xpi:Depends}.
> > 
> > Currently the xul extension recommends the supported xul applications.
> > For example xul-ext-adblock-plus recommends "iceweasel | icedove |
> > iceape | conkeror". All supported packages could be removed and the xul
> > extension would be useless (unless you have install a xul application
> > manually). By moving ${xpi:Recommends} to ${xpi:Depends} the dependency
> > would be more strict and you need to have at least one supported xul
> > application installed.
> > 
> > This change requires all xul extension to add ${xpi:Depends} to Depends.
> > I made this change upwards and backwards compatible. dh_xul-ext will
> > print a warning and fall back to the previous behavior if ${xpi:Depends}
> > is not specified in debian/control. Adding ${xpi:Depends} and using an
> > older version of mozilla-devscript will have no negative effect.
> > 
> > 2) Add min version to dependencies.
> > 
> > Having versioned dependencies makes sense, but having versioned
> > recommends makes no sense. Therefore we have to apply point 1 (moving
> > recommends to depends). Let's take adblock-plus on Ubuntu as example:
> > Instead of depending on "firefox | abrowser | thunderbird | seamonkey |
> > conkeror | prism", we would depend on "firefox | abrowser | thunderbird
> > (>= 3.0) | seamonkey (>= 2.0) | conkeror | prism (>= 1.0~b1)". In this
> > example xul-ext-adblock-plus supports all versions of the firefox,
> > abrowser, and conkeror package, but it requires at least version 3.0 of
> > thunderbird.
> > 
> > Adding a min version requires that the xul applications follow a version
> > policy. [1] All xul applications should take the upstream version string
> > and use "moz-version -d <upstream-version>" [2] to generate the Debian
> > upstream version. Let's take Firefox 4.0b7pre as example. "moz-version
> > -d 4.0b7pre" returns 4.0~b7~pre. Therefore iceweasel should use
> > "4.0~b7~pre-1" as Debian version (or something that is higher).
> 
> >From debian/rules in current versions of iceweasel in unstable, experimental
> and mozilla.d.n/packages:
> 
> # The VERSION_FILTER transforms upstream version patterns to versions
> # useable in debian/changelog. Versions are to be transformed as
> # follows:
> # 4.0      -> 4.0
> # 4.0pre   -> 4.0~pre
> # 4.0b5    -> 4.0~b5
> # 4.0b5pre -> 4.0~b5~pre
> # That should ensure the proper ordering
> VERSION_FILTER := sed 's/\([0-9]\)\([a-z]\)/\1~\2/g'

moz-version returns the same result for the input listed above.

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