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

[Andrea Veri]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, intrigeri wrote:

> > +-        <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?

The rule, discussed with Mike Hommey (glandium) as well, is to bump 
max_version to '*' when a specific extension is known to work and 
didn't have any past breakages when a new version of iceweasel gets 
uploaded into sid.

That said I think you understand the fact that pushing a new revision 
just for a max_version bump is *not* the way to go, can you imagine 
a team with the need of uploading 40+ extensions everytime iceweasel's 
gets upgraded? 

Also extensions will be compatible by default from iceweasel 10, that 
means no max_version check will happen at startup. (finally they 
removed this silly check)

You are welcome to share with us any idea you might have to achieve 
the above without using a wildcard or without having to bump 
max_version at every iceweasel's point release.

cheers,

Andrea

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