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

[Lionel Le Folgoc]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 03:09:03PM -0000, John Vivirito wrote:
> 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 with reusing the iceweasel-* extensions is 1 outdated.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, 

FYI, this is called a merge
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Merging). And no need to
touch the source package name, only the binary one.

> than upgrade to newest version.
> Ours has also been tested.
> instead we need to just use ours to cut the extrs work

Iceweasel-firegpg is in unstable and testing since July, thus, it has been
tested too. The previous comment from Saša was much more pertinent about
the reasoning (especially the auto-update stuff), so you don't have to add
random and wrong reasons to it, please.

In a prefect world, a common (i.e., Debian and Ubuntu) rename of the package
to firegpg (it should work on iceweasel, firefox, and so on, so no need to
prepend the name) would really cut the extra work, for *both* sides (look at
enigmail for instance).
Anyway, we don't live in a perfect world[1], so do as you want.

[1] but there is hope: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489745

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[needs packaging] Please package FireGPG extension for Firefox 
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