[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] ITP: xul-ext-dactyl -- keyboard-accessible user interfaces for XUL-based applications

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Montag, den 25.07.2011, 18:22 +0200 schrieb Michael Schutte:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 05:50:50PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 25.07.2011, 17:48 +0200 schrieb Michael Schutte:
> > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> > > > The main issue is this:  By default, upstream moves most of the XPI
> > > > file’s content into a subdirectory whose name is dynamically computed
> > > > from the build time, apparently “to foil the fastload cache on upgrade”.
> > > > I’d rather not have different paths for every build of the exact same
> > > > package, so I’ve decided on using a revision-based directory name
> > > > instead.  Do you have an idea whether this is needed at all when dealing
> > > > with system-wide extensions?
> > > 
> > > Any comments on that?  If not, I’d like to get the package into NEW.
> > 
> > About which directory are you talking? Can you give an example?
> 
> /usr/share/xul-ext/pentadactyl/1_0_b6_1/ in the binary package; its name
> is determined by $(MANGLE) in common/Makefile.  I think this is rather
> ugly and would like to get rid of it if possible, but I suppose upstream
> has introduced it for a reason …

Yeah, it's ugly and I would get rid of it if it is possible.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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