[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Mozilla-devscripts (or successor)

[Carsten Schoenert]

Am 14.08.24 um 19:35 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
> Hello Carsten,
> I saw your offlist reply and thanks for that. Unfortunately our e-mail
> provider does not let me send you direct e-mails, so I cannot reply
> off list.

That was not intended. The again as full quote.

> Hello Helge,
> 
> Am 11.08.24 um 11:38 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
>> Hello maintainers,
>> I locally continue to maintain webext-noscript after it was
>> (unfortuantely) removed from Debian.
>>
>> A few days ago I wanted to build the latest version and discovered
>> that mozilla-devsripts is gone. Also I cannot find any package
>> providing Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/webext.pm
>>
>> Is there a succession planned? Or is there an alternative?
> 
> right now there are no plans to provide some kind of successor for the 
> old helper script because only a few packages would need this.
> 
> So far the conses was that it's currently more useful if the left over 
> package will place the relevant parts within their debian/ folder.
> 
> For Thunderbird I did saved a copy as
> 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/thunderbird/1%3A128.1.0esr-1/debian/xpi-pack.sh/
> 
> and use this script then to build the various language XPI files.
> 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/thunderbird/1%3A128.1.0esr-1/debian/rules/#L145
> 
> An XPI file is basically just a zip archive, Mechtilde is doing the 
> creation within an override in the debian/rules for eas4tbsync for example.
> 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/eas4tbsync/4.8-1/debian/rules/#L27
> 
> It's not worth to keep the old helper package for these less line that 
> are needed in the end.
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Carsten

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Regards
Carsten