[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Possible MBF: Packages depending on iceweasel but not firefox/firefox-esr

[Niels Thykier]

David Prévot:
> Le 18/03/2016 18:06, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> 
>> I would suggest that Firefox addon packages should depend on "firefox |
>> firefox-esr"
> 
> Most of those packages are mozilla-devscripts for the build and just
> need to be rebuilt to get fixed. Even if our infrastructure has all the
> needed tools to binNMU all of them as a proper transition, some
> limitations on the way arch:all binNMU are handled currently prevents us
> from having most of them already fixed, see #818104.
> 
> What is currently needed if the arch:all binNMU doesn’t get fixed, is
> “just” to upload all of them. I’m currently dragged into doing that for
> hundred of PHP classes packages because of this no arch:all binNMU
> limitation, so I hope someone else from the Debian Mozilla Extension
> Maintainers could take the lead on it (new members are welcome ;).
> 
> Regards
> 
> David
> 

For those wondering about the reasons:

 * dak has a "no arch:all binNMU" check that rejects arch:all binNMUs.
   - It might be time to lift this restriction.

 * These days we could in theory binNMU source packages building only
   arch:all packages.

 * There is a caveat with source packages building both arch:all and
   arch:any packages, where the substvars no longer ensures
   installability (because they assume that version of arch:all is the
   version of the source package).

   - I have tried to device a lintian check which might help us get an
     overview of this situation.

Thanks,
~Niels





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