[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] tree-style-tab conversion to WebExtensions

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Thursday, 26 July 2018 3:25:00 AM AEST Ximin Luo wrote:
> Hey Dmitry, did you try using "dh $@ --with webext" rather than manually
> symlinking and unzipping stuff in the postinst?
> 
> I wrote some emails about it previously in this thread.

Yes, I did try dh_webext and I thoroughly explored prior attempts to package 
web extensions for Firefox.

I've found dh_webext to be not too helpful as it does very little but the 
biggest problem is that Firefox wants _zipped_ extensions (I've explained why 
in another email to the list). I'm creating zipped bundle in postinst...


> There are lots of things left to do but it should be able to handle simple
> WebExtensions like tree-style-tab well. For a quick out-dated example see
> this:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/webext-team/tree-style-tab/tree/pu/webext

I've missed that branch entirely but I already tried similar approach in my 
other package (form-history-control) where I've found dh_webext to be 
somewhat less effective than direct approach...

-- 
Best wishes,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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