Plugin finder service

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:53:16PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:42:17PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:16:33PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:06:12PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I wonder if:
> > > > 
> > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Plugins#Plugin%20Finder%20Service
> > > > 
> > > > is also supported on Debian? #592464 requests to add the information to
> > > > the gtk-vnc plugin but I can't seem to find any reference to the plugin
> > > > finder service on Debian.
> > > 
> > > It's not supported. Though I want to enhance dh_xulrunner before squeeze
> > > to provide enough information to fill some of these fields.
> > So adding these fields is fine and we intend to use the same format than
> > Ubuntu in the future?
> 
> Most likely, yes, though I don't see the point of e.g
> Xb-Npp-Applications and Xb-Npp-Description.
> Xb-Npp-Applications sounds like an arbitrary limitation, and
> Xb-Npp-Description sounds like the package short description should be
> used instead.
> I'm also unsure what Xb-Npp-File is supposed to be used for.
O.k. so it's probably better to skip this until Debian can make use of
this. Thanks for the prompt feedback!

I just noticed that iceweasel's #484010 requests plugin finder support
in iceweasel already.
Cheers,
 -- Guido