[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#976697: webext-umatrix: no longer developed upstream, remove or switch to LibreMatrix or?

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, 2021-09-04 at 17:08 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:

> Also it is unclear to me why the source is the Mozilla XPI while the
> package works with both and upstream offers different download files
> for Firefox and for Chromium/Chrome. (Then again, I haven't worked on
> browser extensions since Mozilla ditched XUL…)

I tried updating webext-umatrix to the latest release and immediately
encountered this issue too as the build fails with the upstream source
instead of the upstream prebuilt XPI file. I think that using prebuilt
XPI files when the upstream project has a git repository has a risk of
DFSG item 2 violations. Debian using XPI files is one of the reasons I
started this discussion about not using upstream packaging ecosystems:

   Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging
   https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/937697e40caf519e18119635db07d7b74b37b980.camel@debian.org

That said, I expect building WebExtensions from source properly is
going to be a large undertaking that will require lots of node-*
packages and other dependencies to be added to Debian.

So a reasonable way to start is probably to update to the latest XPI
and then start working on the dependencies etc.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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