On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I'm not sure what the Debian Mozilla team is doing, but Ubuntu has > removed most Firefox extensions from their archives as it's too big of > a hassle to keep bumping the version numbers every six weeks in all > supported distributions. Why can't this addon just be packaged at > https://addons.mozilla.org/ ?
actually we packaged this addon to be able to make a system-wide installation on terminals of our company easily. then we thought there is no reason not to share it. i think packaging an extension is a good idea for system-wide mass installations. it becomes possible by only updating your package list. and also it's useful if the extension has a dependency. for example nuxeo's liveedit extension depends libreoffice and a libreoffice extension and needs user configuration after installation. for imkbizle case, there may not be a true need for a debian package, we had just thought it would have no harm :) but we can assure you we don't make releases so frequently. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
