mozilla-devscripts and Debian

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:53:14PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> are there plans to get mozilla-devscripts into Debian? It would be nice
> if we would have this tool in Debian, too.

Yes, i have a ITP open for it (debbugs #528225) upload will happen asap.

> 
> Can mozilla-devscripts provide the dependencies for the plugins? So that
> we can write in debian/control "Depends: ${foo:bar}" instead of
> "Depends: firefox | abrowser | firefox-3.0"? mozilla-devscripts should
> detect which versions are supported and generate a depends stanza. So
> bugs like https://launchpad.net/bugs/272959 would be fixed with a
> recompile.
> 

I like the idea. So yes, we should do it. preferably guessing the
right depends based off the MOZ_XPI_MOZILLA_DIRS field or even better,
by parsing targetApplication field in install.rdf.


 - Alexander