Hi Mike,
Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:45:08PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
>
> (You should have CCed me, you're lucky that i looked back at this bug)
Oops, my fault.
> > * Why can xulrunner-stub be changed via alternatives, but not
> > xulrunner?
>
> xulrunner-stub *was* doing a search of the most recent xulrunner
> compared to the constraints in application.ini. The xulrunner binary
> doesn't. And I'm saying "was" because that feature is gone with version
> 5.0.
Oh, ok.
> I'm afraid I'll have to remove that alternative considering the above.
> (and that may happen as soon as today)
Good to know, so I'm forgetting my work on getting this way of
choosing the xulrunner version back into the conkeror Debian package.
IIRC conkeror's upstream also argued about there's no more way to get
the newest xulrunner version by giving proper commandline arguments,
which seem to have the same source.
> > > The unfortunate only solution is to have that symbolic link.
> >
> > I'd really like to make a symlink to /usr/bin/xulrunner, but I surely
> > won't bind conkeror to a specific xulrunner version if it works with
> > more than one xulrunner version.
>
> That's however the only way it's going to work in the future...
Well, no, the "xulrunner /path/to/application.ini" approach still
seems to work fine with all xulrunner versions, so I'll stick with
that for now. IIRC conkeror's upstream is also going in that
direction. They used some commandline options to get the GRE version
before IIRC.
> It's not because conkeror is fortunate enough to work with different
> versions that we can assume everything will.
Sure. I though think that instantbird is the only other non-mozilla
xulrunner application in Debian besides conkeror.
> I know I'm the one who invited you to use the xulrunner-stub, but at
> the time, it was a viable solution. It's not anymore for your
> purpose. Sad, but true.
Yeah, thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, it really helped to
understand the issue. (I wouldn't have done that bug report ping-pong
if I was aware of that solution being gone completely.)
Regards, Axel
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