On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 07:10:36PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 06:59:38PM +0100, Félix Sipma wrote:
> > On 2017-11-05 18:50+0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 06:28:42PM +0100, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> > >> Le dimanche 05 novembre 2017 à 18:11 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a
> > >> écrit :
> > >>> On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 03:15:59PM +0100, Félix Sipma wrote:
> > >>> So, unless I am missing something, it’s not yet possible to provide
> > >>> Zotero 5
> > >>> with the new Firefox connector. And shipping only the standalone app
> > >>> is rather
> > >>> useless in my opinion.
> > >>
> > >> Nope. For two reasons :
> > >>
> > >> - Zotero standalone can be used with Chrom{e|ium} and the
> > >> corresponding connector.
> > >>
> > >> - At least as an interim measure, Debian users could use Zotero-
> > >> built connectors along with Debian-packaged Chromium and Firefox.
> > >
> > > Since I am using zotero with Firefox, I must say that my motivation to
> > > package
> > > it without the Firefox connector is rather low (and I am not interested in
> > > packaging node-web-ext).
> > >
> > > Basically if any of you wants to become (co-)maintainer of the package
> > > and do
> > > the work, you are more than welcome! I may even open an official RFH/RFA,
> > > I’ll see.
> >
> > OK, I can try to update the package, and may be interested in
> > (co-)maintaining
> > it.
>
> Thanks Félix, this is a good news.
>
> As you may have already seen, this is a rather complex package.
>
> The first step is to update the machinery under the get-orig-source target of
> debian/rules, in order to get a new orig tarball.
>
> And the most painful part is to deal with all the minified javascript that is
> spread across the various translators, and which are problematic from a DFSG
> perspective. See debian/source/lintian-overrides and the files under
> debian/missing-sources/*. This is a grunt work that has to be updated with
> every new release; I did not check if there is much to update for the 5.0
> release.I forgot to mention the debian/copyright file, which is also a tad painful to update. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org
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