Control: retitle 1125955 ITP: zotero -- reference manager for collecting, organizing and citing research Control: owner 1125955 [email protected]
Hi Antonin, I'd like to try to package zotero, and have retitled this RFP to ITP and set myself as owner. Work already done: Dependency audit of the whole build: 4 npm projects (main tree plus 3 git submodules), 117 unique modules, 65 already in the archive, 52 missing, of which about 37 need real work. Gecko side: Zotero is built on Firefox ESR. The upstream modify_omni post-processing runs against the Debian firefox-esr install tree: 104/105 modifications apply unchanged, so no Firefox build is needed. Five of the missing node modules (luaparse, sentencex-ts, fflate, sorted-btree, eld) are packaged and awaiting NEW review. Known difficulties: The build needs a Mozilla Gecko runtime. Upstream ships a prebuilt Firefox ESR and post-processes it; Debian cannot use a binary blob, so the package will reuse the firefox-esr install tree and apply the same post-processing (verified working, see above). Several bundled dependencies are older than what Debian ships (Babel 7 vs 8, TypeScript 5 vs 6). Per Policy 4.13 this means patches to upstream, not vendored copies. Upstream ships no ESR line and cuts a major release every 6-10 weeks; the database format upgrades one-way. Stable releases will therefore need an explicit upgrade/no-downgrade policy. Regards, Emfox Zhou
