[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#864820: xul-ext-greasemonkey: userscripts no longer available with firefox 54

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:02:47PM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote:
> Package: xul-ext-greasemonkey
> Version: 3.8-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After updating firefox to version 54.0, the list of userscripts in
> about:addons is empty, and the installed scripts aren't applied to the
> webpages anymore. This seems to be issue #2488 in greasemonkey, which is
> solved in version 3.11 of greasemonkey.
> 
> https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/issues/2488
> 
> When started from a terminal, firefox outputs the following error:
> 
> 1497523208324   addons.manager  ERROR   Exception calling provider <unnamed-provider>.getAddonsByTypes: TypeError: GM_util.getPreferredLocale is not a function (chrome://greasemonkey-modules/content/script.js:148:9) JS Stack trace: getBestLocalization at script.js:148:9 < Script_getLocalizedDescription at script.js:156:20 < ScriptAddon at addons4.js:98:3 < ScriptAddonFactoryByScript at addons4.js:74:28 < AddonProvider_getAddonsByTypes/<@addons4.js:50:27 < AddonProvider_getAddonsByTypes at addons4.js:49:7 < callProviderAsync at AddonManager.jsm:298:12 < promiseCallProvider/<@AddonManager.jsm:322:53 < Promise at Promise-backend.js:390:5 < promiseCallProvider at AddonManager.jsm:321:10 < getAddonsByTypes/<@AddonManager.jsm:2556:36
> 
> Also, setting intl.locale.matchOS to false does get the scripts working
> again. But since the default in firefox is true, this should only be a
> workaround an greasemonkey should be updated to a fixed version.

There's a web extension compatible with current releases (4.7), but
this package wasn't updated for a long time.

Does anyone intend/plan to switch the package to the web extension?
Otherwise it should be removed from the archive.

Cheers,
        Moritz