[Bug 807544] [NEW] [Suggestion] Supply a firefox-dev package for easy compilation of extensions

[AlainKnaff]

Public bug reported:

Currently, for compiling a Firefox extension, the recommended procedure
is to start by compiling Firefox itself, which is a lengthy process.

So, my suggestion would be to supply a firefox-dev package which has the
necessary header files and libraries needed for compilation of Firefox
extensions.

This has become necessary due to the frequent major version number
changes of Firefox, which often make it necessary to compile extensions
locally, when binaries are not yet available on addons.firefox.com

There _is_ actually a firefox-dev package, but apart from a changelog,
it is empty.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  [Suggestion] Supply a firefox-dev package for easy compilation of
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