[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] mozilla-devscripts, xpi:depends and iceape

Micah Gersten micahg at ubuntu.com
Sun Mar 6 02:43:49 UTC 2011


On 03/05/2011 04:51 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 05.03.2011, 11:38 +0100 schrieb arno:
>> Hi,
>> in mozilla-noscript, I use ${xpi:Depends} in debian/control, and it's
filled to:
>> iceweasel (>= 3.0) | iceape (>= 2.0) | xulrunner-1.9.1 | xulrunner-1.9.2
>> by dh_xul-ext
>>
>> As iceape depends on iceape-browser and iceape-mailnews, I received bug
>> #616287 asking to depend on iceape-browser to avoid installing
iceape-mailnews
>> just to use noscript.
>>
>> This makes some sense, but I did not find a way to achieve this with
>> mozilla-devscripts. Do you have any thought about this issue ? Should
I better
>> leave iceape, or should I "hardcore" Depends field ?
>
> xul-app-data.csv needs to be updated for that change, but there is a
> problem that we need to solve: When should we use iceape-browser instead
> of iceape and when should we use iceape-mailnews instead of iceape?
>

It seems unusual that someone would want iceape-browser without
iceape-mailnews as it's meant to be a suite, but presumably, anything
that also depends on iceweasel should have a depends on iceape-browser
and anything that depends on icedove should have a depends on
iceape-mailnews.

Micah
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