[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#720066: xul-ext-requestpolicy: no changes reflected in changelog.gz of the new version

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: xul-ext-requestpolicy
Version: 0.5.27-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
First of all kudos for packaging and maintaining the sheer number of
add-ons for Mozilla. It's well appreciated by people like me.

On the bug itself while I'm filing this bug as normal, I do guess that
the above breaks Debian policy somewhere so it should be treated as
such (or at least the severity should be raised). I would guess that
the team which maintains this extension would look into the
appropriate handling of things.

The thing is I downloaded and installed this extension. I went to the
/usr/share/doc/xul-ext-requestpolicy to see what latest changes were
there and found that changes till 0.5.25 are only shared.

/usr/share/doc/xul-ext-requestpolicy$ zcat changelog.gz | head
Version 0.5.25 2012-27-02

Bug fixes:
* Requests to moz-filedata: and blob: were blocked. This caused
problems with, for example, pdf.js.

Extension compatibility:
* Dr. Web Link Checker's popup window had blocked content that
couldn't be easily whitelisted.

More info: https://github.com/RequestPolicy/requestpolicy/issues?milestone=20&state=closed

whereas if you go to the add-on page and look in the version info. you
do get that much more info.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/versions/


Version 0.5.28 Released July 30, 2013 160.8 KB Works with Firefox 4.0
and later, SeaMonkey 2.1 and later
Improvements:
* Added lv-LV (Latvian) translation (thanks to Aleksandrs Ļedovskis).
* Added "Support RequestPolicy" menu item

Misc:
* Removed research study code.

    Source code released under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
    What's this?
    View the source

Version 0.5.28b2 Released July 26, 2013 160.9 KB Works with Firefox
4.0 and later, SeaMonkey 2.1 and later
Improvements:
* Added lv-LV (Latvian) translation (thanks to Aleksandrs Ļedovskis).
* Added "Support RequestPolicy" menu item

Misc:
* Removed research study code.

    Source code released under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
    What's this?
    View the source

Version 0.5.28b1 Released March 2, 2013 160.5 KB Works with Firefox
4.0 and later, SeaMonkey 2.1 and later
Improvements:
* Added lv-LV (Latvian) translation (thanks to Aleksandrs Ļedovskis).

Misc:
* Removed research study code.

    Source code released under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
    What's this?
    View the source

Version 0.5.27 Released July 19, 2012 172.0 KB Works with Firefox 4.0
and later, SeaMonkey 2.1 and later
Bug fixes:
* URLs entered in the location bar began triggering redirect
notifications starting with Firefox 16.

Locales:
* Added : eu, it, sk-SK
* Updated: fr
* Renamed: tr -> tr-TR

Other:
* Added implementation of opt-in telemetry that is part of my academic research.

More info:
https://github.com/RequestPolicy/requestpolicy/issues?milestone=22&state=closed

    Source code released under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
    What's this?
    View the source

Version 0.5.27b2 Released July 16, 2012 172.0 KB Works with Firefox
4.0 and later, SeaMonkey 2.1 and later
Bug fixes:
* URLs entered in the location bar began triggering redirect
notifications starting with Firefox 16.

Locales:
* Added : eu, it, sk-SK
* Updated: fr
* Renamed: tr -> tr-TR

Other:
* Added implementation of opt-in telemetry that is part of my academic research.

More info:
https://github.com/RequestPolicy/requestpolicy/issues?milestone=22&state=closed

    Source code released under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
    What's this?
    View the source

Version 0.5.27b1 Released July 10, 2012 172.0 KB Works with Firefox
4.0 and later, SeaMonkey 2.1 and later
Bug fixes:
* URLs entered in the location bar began triggering redirect
notifications starting with Firefox 16.

Locales:
* Added : eu, it, sk-SK
* Updated: fr
* Renamed: tr -> tr-TR

Other:
* Added implementation of opt-in telemetry that is part of my academic research.

More info:
https://github.com/RequestPolicy/requestpolicy/issues?milestone=22&state=closed

    Source code released under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
    What's this?
    View the source

Version 0.5.26 Released June 4, 2012 146.4 KB Works with Firefox 4.0
and later, SeaMonkey 2.1 and later
Bug fixes:
* Links from Firefox's new about:newtab page were blocked.
* Links from view-source pages were blocked. This fix is only partial:
cross-domain links that aren't otherwise whitelisted are still
blocked.

More info: https://github.com/RequestPolicy/requestpolicy/issues?milestone=21&state=closed

    Source code released under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
    What's this?
    View the source

Version 0.5.26b1 Released May 17, 2012 146.4 KB Works with Firefox 4.0
and later, SeaMonkey 2.1 and later
Bug fixes:
* Links from Firefox's new about:newtab page were blocked.
* Links from view-source pages were blocked. This fix is only partial:
cross-domain links that aren't otherwise whitelisted are still
blocked.

More info: https://github.com/RequestPolicy/requestpolicy/issues?milestone=21&state=closed

    Source code released under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0
    What's this?
    View the source

As also noticed there is a new version 0.5.28 which can also be
packaged and released perhaps. I do concede I do not know if 0.5.27
and above play nicely or not with Iceweasel ESR 10.0 and 17.0. This I
guess the extension maintainers would be in better position to
tell/share.

Another thing which I would like to draw the attention of the team is
there is a 1.0 beta release out and maybe they can see/try that.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/1.0.html

Looking forward to a new release and bundled changelog along with it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xul-ext-requestpolicy depends on:
ii  iceweasel  23.0-2

xul-ext-requestpolicy recommends no packages.

xul-ext-requestpolicy suggests no packages.

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