Seamonkey progress

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:36:24PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I uploaded test packages on
> http://people.debian.org/~glandium/seamonkey/
> 
> I haven't extensively tested the programs yet, but everything should be
> fine.
> 
> The changelog is not very up to date, especially the date, but
> basically, I made so much changes that it's almost as if I started from
> scratch.

Yeah ... just start from scratch. Changelog does not matter for this imo.

> 
> The upgrade path is not handled by the maintainer scripts yet, I was
> actually wondering if I'd rather do it in seamonkey or in the mozilla
> transition package (which, as you may see in the conflicts I'm planning
> to version 2:1.8, speaking of which, if we make transitionning in the
> mozilla package, we don't need conflicts at all).

I would think that providing transitional packages out of seamonkey
would be easier because we don't need to keep a pseudo source tarball
for mozilla in the archive then ... but thats on you to decide.


> 
> Note that I didn't include the debian specific start pages for the mailer
> and the browser because, since we are going to change from seamonkey to
> icedove, I was thinking we would have to change the original ones
> anyway...

If you provide a custom startpage, Please remember not to use remote
images as it was the case in mozilla and the seamonkey packages from
Hendrik.

> 
> Anyways, I'll start s/seamonkey/icedove/ in the debian directory asap,
> so that all that will remain will be the source tarball. Let's just
> hope everything works correctly with my packages, and let me know what
> you think is best for the transition from mozilla, I'll adapt the
> debian directory to fit the final choice.

AFAIK, Hendrik-Jan already tested the tarballs I uploaded. We found a
few more places that need adaption. But otherwise there were no
problems.


 - Alexander
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