[Bug 227945] Re: [needs packaging] Please package FireGPG extension for Firefox

[John Vivirito]

On 12/09/2008 09:10 AM, Saša Bodiroža wrote:
> Hello Lionel,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 07:11:45AM -0000, John Vivirito wrote:
>>> On 12/08/2008 09:21 AM, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
>>>> Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 01:56:01, John Vivirito a écrit :
>>>>> Added Ubuntu task and assigned asac to review and push as needed
>>>>>
>>>> There is already iceweasel-firegpg in unstable/main and jaunty/universe.
>>>> Isn't it a better idea to merge it instead of repackaging it from
>>>> scratch?
>>>>
>>> We dont use iceweasel we use abrowser. We shouldnt have to fix each of
>> Where did I say that we use iceweasel?
>>
>>> the iceweasel packages to support other browsers since at this time it
>>> only depends on iceweasel and the packages are not updated but ours
>>> are.
>> Right, I understand (this looks like duplicate work though). Then you may
>> want to drop from the archive several iceweasel-* packages that landed in
>> jaunty.
>>
>>> We dont merge any mozilla apps from debian and we havee it so they get
>>> our packages.
>> "it" == firegpg?
>> "they" == debian?
>> Why would Debian get our firegpg package?
> 
> I see your point, but we (Mozilla team) are currently using scripts
> provided by mozilla-devscripts package for extensions packaging, in
> particular xpi.mk and med-xpi-pack, to make the process easier to the
> packager. The package is not available in Debian, and we are working
> on the solution to include some part of that package in Debian too.
> Until that happens, our and Debian's way of extension packaging
> heavily differs, so it is not possible to reuse their packaging.
> 
> Also, asac and Volans are working on set of scripts which would
> automatically check for newer versions of all our extensions and try
> to auto-update packages. That is why we are maintaining packaging in
> bzr branches. I'm not sure whether that will be included in Debian.
> 
> We are doing all of this in order to try to bring more extensions into
> the archive, and to be able to give regularly updated extensions to
> the user.
> 
> So, for now, some of the extensions are merged, those on which we
> haven't worked on. In case firegpg has relatively newer version in
> Debian, we could use that package, but I think it will be adapted at
> some point to make use of scripts in mozilla-devscripts and
> auto-update scripts.
> 
> I agree that diverge from Debian's packaging and double work are not
> good in case they're not needed, but I think it's not the case here. I
> hope that we will be able to include some of our work in Debian,
> making the merging process a lot easier, at least with Debian using
> mozilla-devscripts for extensions.
> 
Debians iceweasel-firegpg is at version 0.5.* and our firegpg package is
at 0.6.2 IIRC i have it i just can look at it atm. The problem i have
with reusing the iceweasel-* extensions is 1 outdated.
2. if we were to use thier packages we would drop the iceweasel name and
have to modifiy thier package for deps and such, than upgrade to newest
version.
Ours has also been tested.
instead we need to just use ours to cut the extrs work

-- 
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

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[needs packaging] Please package FireGPG extension for Firefox 
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