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

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Carsten,
Am Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 08:34:33PM +0200 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> Am 14.08.24 um 19:35 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
> > 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.

Thanks, then I can include my full answer as well.

> > 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.

Ok.

> > 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.

I never bothered to investigate how it works internally, if its as
easy as copying files from a zip folder, then of course I can adapt
the packaging.

Thanks for the hints!

Greetings

            Helge

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