[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] iceweasel & extensions

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:13:45PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It would be great if in future, iceweasel would declare Breaks on any
> extensions which are incompatible with the new version of iceweasel.

Yay for a 2km long Breaks.

> Alternatively maybe it should have Provides: xul-ext-api-X.Y and the
> plugins should all depend on the versions of the API that they support.
> I imagine both of these would be easy to do automatically.

The extensions can and should already depend on the versions they work
with, which are declared in install.rdf.

Mike