[Pkg-chromium-maint] Packaging Chromium extensions

[Matthew Bekkema]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:58:07AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> There aren't any packages providing chromium extensions yet in debian,
> so yours could be the first!
> 
> Unfortunately since a path is not yet set, you'll need to forge it yourself.
> 
> There is one chromium extension in ubuntu, unity-chromium-extension,
> which might be a useful guide.  I haven't looked at it myself.
> 
> If you need any changes on the chromium packaging side for this, I'll
> be happy to help.

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the help. I took a look at unity-chromium-extension and managed to
get uBlock installed in the same way but there are a couple problems until
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=420373 gets fixed. As
mentioned in the issue report, a private key needs to be included in the Debian
source package. The other problem is it wont be possible to create a
ublock-common package containing the common files between the Firefox and
Chromium versions as there is no way to link to the files from the Chromium
package.


Thanks,
Matthew