[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#653003: closed by Fabrizio Regalli <fabreg at fabreg.it> (Bug#653003: fixed in requestpolicy 0.5.23-3)

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote (22 Dec 2011 21:36:59 GMT) :
> #653003: xul-ext-requestpolicy: Need update for Iceweasel/Firefox 9
> It has been closed by Fabrizio Regalli <fabreg at fabreg.it>.

Thank you for taking care of this.

> +-        <em:maxVersion>9.0a1</em:maxVersion>
> ++        <em:maxVersion>*</em:maxVersion>

I'm a bit surprised this bug was fixed by optimistically betting the
extension will work with any future iceweasel version; I understood
the introduction of ${xpi:Breaks} as a way to express in a more formal
and strict way the guaranteed fact that "extension X works fine with
this set of versions of iceweasel"; therefore, the s/9\.0a1/*/ patch
introduced in requestpolicy/0.5.23-3 seems like a step backward to me.

So this makes me curious: is that commonly considered good practice
among the Debian Mozilla Extension team? Do we patch other XUL
extensions this way in Debian? Is there a project of doing this
consistently to all XUL extensions packaged in Debian, or merely to go
on doing this on a case by case basis, only when needed?

Cheers,
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