[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Relevance of xpi:Breaks (aka adblock-plus incompatible with iceape)

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:52:46AM +0000, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> With its version 2.0.2, adblock-plus has become incompatible with
> iceape, or to be exact it started to Break: iceape (>= 2.1), while only
> iceape (2.0.14-9) is currently available within Debian (bug #653302).
> 
> I started to investigate that, and I found that this incompatibility is
> brought by dh_xul-ext that takes it from the the compatibility
> information from adblock-plus's (generated) install.rdf.
> 
> I believe this is wrong. Indeed, adblock-plus is not compatible with
> iceape (<< 2.1), but I think that only means that such a version of
> iceape will simply not benefit from adblock-plus, not that it will cease
> to work at all.
> 
> I think the appropriate behaviour would rather be to add version
> information to xpi:Depends (well, it is already there, actually) and
> xpi:Enhances, what do you think?

That you're on the wrong list ;)

Mike