[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#785300: xul-ext-pentadactyl: pentadactyl not compatible with iceweasel 38.0-1

[Michael Schutte]

Hey,

I'm afraid that an update of dactyl in Jessie is unrealistic.  Finding
and backporting the compatibility-relevant changes is non-trivial to say
the least.  The diffs I had to import from the upstream repository to
make it even start up amount to around 3000 changed lines, and even then
most functionality does not work.

It looks to me like a removal from stable is once again the most
reasonable thing to do (this already happened once in wheezy), which I
am going to call for if there are no objections within the next few
days.  (With the way Iceweasel security updates are dealt with these
days, I'm beginning to doubt that a complex add-on like Pentadactyl is
even worth maintaining in Debian at all.)

Cheers,
Michael