icedove status for debian

Alexander Sack asac at jwsdot.com
Wed Apr 7 10:37:03 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:26:47PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:00:49AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:35:02AM +0100, Christoph Goehre wrote:
> > > Hi Alexander,
> > > 
> > > On 23.03.2010 11:23, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > >> I've uploaded new -dev packages for testing propose which include the
> > > >> sdk directory.
> > > >>
> > > >>  http://pkg-mozext.alioth.debian.org/icedove-prereleases/icedove-dev_3.0.4-1~1.gbpecd284_i386.deb
> > > >>  http://pkg-mozext.alioth.debian.org/icedove-prereleases/icedove_3.0.4-1~1.gbpecd284_i386.deb
> > > >>
> > > > I replied to the other release team thread ... i have uploaded a full sdk with some tweaks
> > > > for tbird 3 to ubuntu. Please check if you have everything as that is what will be needed
> > > > to build enigmail.
> > > 
> > > the different between the Ubuntu and Debian thunderbird/icedove-dev
> > > package is only the links for 'nspr-config', 'nspr', 'nss-config' and
> > > 'nss' in /usr/lib/MOZ_APP_NAME/ and /usr/include/MOZ_APP_NAME/unstable/.
> > > And I miss to add package depends for libnss3-dev and libnspr4-dev. Did
> > > we need this links really?
> > 
> > Yes, the xulrunner build system checks for those -config files in sdk
> > dir ... so its easiest to ship them rather than patching the build
> > system all the time ... did you add those in last upload?
> 
> Or simply use --with-system-nspr and --with-system-nss on top of
> --with-libxul-sdk. No more change needed on the sdk, then.

sure, but the idea is to make the sdk just do the right thing - whether you build it
with or without system nspr/nss.

 - Alexander




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