Package: mozilla-devscripts
Version: 0.20
Severity: normal
The current draft of https://wiki.debian.org/Mozilla/ExtensionsPolicy
suggests:
> Packages shipping extensions for XUL-based applications like
> iceweasel or icedove should put unpack the contents of the extension
> in a folder in /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common.
It also says:
> It is recommended to use mozilla-devscripts. It will realize the
> policy for you.
However, using mozilla-devscripts 0.20 on a new xul-ext-monkeysphere
package, i see the file getting unpacked into
/usr/share/xul-ext-monkeysphere instead. (and then linked to from each
compatible application's private extensions directory in
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{xulapp-id}/{extension-id}).
I'm using plain debhelper as instructed with:
override_dh_auto_install:
install-xpi monkeysphere.xpi
I realize there was some discussion over whether
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/common was the right choice, but we
should either fix the policy draft or we should fix the install-xpi.
it seems silly to have them disagree.
IIRC, the best argument in favor of modifying the draft to match the
current behavior of install-xpi was: do we have xulrunner apps scan
for compatible packages each invocation? or do we figure out which
apps are compatible at extension installation time? opting for the
latter seems more efficient.
IIRC, the best argument in favor of modifying install-xpi to match the
current draft of policy was that upstream xulrunner apps are all going
to default to looking in the same place in the future. I'm not sure
whether the xulapps will subsequently stop looking in their private
extensions directory as well.
Can we align the policy and the tool somehow?
--dkg
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mozilla-devscripts depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools
ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment
ii perl 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-rdflib 2.4.2-1+b1 RDF library containing an RDF trip
ii python-support 1.0.6.1 automated rebuilding support for P
ii quilt 0.48-5 Tool to work with series of patche
ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files
ii wget 1.12-1.1 retrieves files from the web
ii zip 3.0-3 Archiver for .zip files
mozilla-devscripts recommends no packages.
Versions of packages mozilla-devscripts suggests:
ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System
ii git-core 1:1.7.0-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
pn mercurial <none> (no description available)
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