[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#716816: pu: package firetray/0.4.6-1~deb7u1

[David Prévot]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu

The recent ice{weasel,dove} upgrade via debian-security broke some
xul-ext-$stuff, and some of them can simply be fixed by updating the
supported versions.

FireTray is not among those, not only it will FTBFS with the
xulrunner-dev coming from wheezy-security (#713526), but it becomes
totally incompatible with the new icedove version (#648890, #678575).

The new upstream version that has just been uploaded to Sid works
already fine in Wheezy, but the 0.4 branch has nothing in common with
the 0.3 one: it’s a complete rewrite in js-ctypes.

On the bright side: it works, and since it became Architecture: All,
FTBFS is a lot less likely to happen again. There is currently no tight
versioned dependency to ice{weasel,dove}.

On the other side, the upstream code doesn’t have anything in common
with the version currently in Wheezy, and the few preferences get lost
on upgrade.

Please find attached the minimalist debdiff of the packaging I was able
to provide while preparing the 0.4.6-0.1 NMU. I ended up adopting the
package, so the actual debdiff is a bit more invasive, mostly removing
useless stuff (e.g. patches, build dependencies) and properly
documenting the copyright).

So would you consider updating firetray to the version currently in Sid
once it spent the necessary amount of time you’ll judge reasonable in
Jessie (I’ll then prepare a ~deb7u1 version built in Wheezy)? 

Thanks in advance for considering this request

David

--

Imagine me bribing the team members with a big part of chocolate cake
with a cherry on top, or with some old rum I won’t miss to share next
month in central Europe…

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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