Bug#562987: missing metadata for mozilla-devscripts

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Dienstag, den 29.12.2009, 20:31 +0100 schrieb Mike Hommey:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:10:41PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Package: xulrunner-1.9.1
> > Version: 1.9.1.6-1
> > Severity: normal
> > Usertags: missing-metadata-for-mozilla-devscripts
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am working on improving mozilla-devscripts for packaging XUL
> > extensions [1]. The current version of mozilla-devscripts in unstable
> > contains a hardcoded list of XUL based applications and their start and
> > end of life versions. Instead of hardcoding these information, the
> > applications itself should provide the information.
> > 
> > Please add following line(s) to the binary package section for
> > xulrunner-1.9.1 in debian/rules:
> > 
> > Xb-Xul-AppId: toolkit at mozilla.org
> > Xb-Xul-Eol: 1.9.1.*
> 
> Arent't these headers supposed to start with XB-... ? (capital B)

According to the policy the B should be capital. The vlc package in
Ubuntu uses a small b (which works, too).

> Why is there an Eol field here and none on other applications ?

The other packages do not have an end of life. When the Xul-Eol field is
omitted, mozilla-devscripts will use * as Xul-Eol value. Only packages
with a version string in the name needs this field.

> > [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/mozilla-devscripts/dh_xul-ext
> 
> Just a small note, I would have appreciated a mail about this work earlier,
> so that I would have avoided starting something similar on my end...

A week ago I wrote a mail [2] to the relevant mailing lists and got no
response.

[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mozext-maintainers/2009-December/000352.html

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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