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

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Carsten,
Am Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 07:40:20PM +0200 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> Am 01.09.24 um 18:01 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
> > So the fix is simple, simply remove the "--with-webext" in
> > debian/rules and list the directories of the xpi (zip) files in
> > debian/install.
> > 
> > This works, but the previous package had one more file, (actually a
> > soft link):
> > lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2023-12-22 14:22 ./usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232} -> ../../../webext/noscript
> > 
> > What is the relevance of this file/link? Should I simply create it
> > manually or does this hash have a deeper meaning?
> 
> of course there was and is a meaning of this. :-)

…

Thanks for the explantion.

> I personally would keep that linking and do not install the AddOn into
> /usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/ directly.

Then I manually create this symlink. (Though my users don't use TB).

Thanks!

Greetings

          Helge
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