Le mercredi 24 février 2010 à 11:25 -0600, Kenny Hitt a écrit : > > Sorry, but the gecko backend is not in a releasable state. Building yelp > > against gecko is an option we can certainly not afford in the current > > state of affairs. > > > That's not good. I have talked to upstream Orca, yelp, and at least 1 webkit > developer. The responce I got can be summed up by: > Since this is specific to Debian, Debian should be the one to fix it. > I did get yelp 2.28.1 to build locally without errors. I realize this isn't a > Debian package, but yelp can be built against gecko.
This is indeed Debian’s problem, but Debian won’t solve it if no one
actively works on it. I guess we could indeed switch back to gecko, but
only if someone volunteers to both:
* help the Debian Mozilla maintainers on xulrunner, especially
wrt. gtkmozembed (which is not maintained upstream),
* maintain the gecko backend in yelp (remember that this code
breaks every time xulrunner is upgraded).
Currently this is not possible due to a lack of visibility on gecko
maintenance. The recent announcements from Mozilla, which imply a halt
of any kind of long-term (and even medium-term) security support, do not
make me very fond of the idea.
Remember that just because Ubuntu managed to build a package, doesn’t
make it suitable for Debian. This package has to work for the whole
squeeze lifetime, not just for 6 months.
Cheers,
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