Am Donnerstag, den 30.05.2013, 22:29 +0100 schrieb Wookey: > +++ Josh Triplett [2013-05-29 11:50 -0700]: > > Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > > One problematic aspect are the various xul-ext-* packages currently > > > packaged. It's very likely that some of them will break with ESR17 > > > and ESR24 in the future. > > > > > > However, there's not much we can do here. We can select a narrow (!) > > > set of important addons (e.g. enigmail for Icedove) that we will > > > keep in sync through stable-security, but that doesn't scale for > > > the full scale of Mozilla extensions currently packaged. > > > > > > In the future the majority of packages should thus rather be installed > > > through http://addons.mozilla.org instead of Debian packages. > > > > As a user of sid who also maintains various systems running stable, I > > rely on packages like xul-ext-adblock-plus to make it easier to install > > specific addons systemwide. I find it much easier to install those via > > the Debian packaging system rather than a user-level mechanism that > > involves running Firefox as one or more target users (or more likely > > doing the equivalent of creating a xul-ext-* package for local use). I > > realize that you can't maintain the full library of Firefox addons as > > packages, but I'm hoping that some of the most common and popular ones > > stick around and stay up to date, notably Adblock Plus, HTTPS > > Everywhere, and It's All Text. > > Absolutely, and I'd like to add lazarus, noscript, ghostery, user-agent > switcher, and debian-buttons to that list of 'can't-live-without, worth > maintaining as packages' add-ons. (And Tab Mix Plus is exceedingly > handy too) > > Obviously if no-one wants to maintain them then I guess we'll have to > get them the way everyone else does, but I certainly find real value > in having them packaged, and am pleased every time I can get an add-on > that way. Do we have helpers (as for CPAN and similar archives) to > make creation and maintenance of such packages simple?
mozilla-devscript is the helper to create xul-ext packages. It helps installing the .xpi file in the right place and creates the dependency lists. We have a wiki page [1] with a usage explanation. PS: It would be good to have this wiki page content converted to a man page that we could ship with the mozilla-devscript package. Help doing this would be appreciated. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/mozilla-devscripts > If it wasn't too hard I'd be happy to maintain xul-ext-lazarus, for example. It is simple in most cases. You often just repack the .xpi file. Do you mean "Lazarus: Form Recovery" with xul-ext-lazarus [my first connection was the Lazarus IDE for Pascal]? This extension is labeled as "Freeware" and therefore not DFSG-free. You have to convince upstream to relicense the package before it can enter the main archive. I don't think that it makes sense to packaging non-free xul extensions in the Debian archive. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1370094430.3020.14.camel@deep-thought
