gecko-mediaplayer and /usr/lib/firefox/plugins -> ../mozilla/plugins symlink

Cesare Tirabassi cesare.tirabassi at gmail.com
Mon May 17 09:27:21 UTC 2010


>Brandon reported trouble unpacking the latest version of gecko-mediaplayer.
>The package contents include
>
>  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so (a file)
>  /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so -> ../../mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so (a symlink)
>
>Unfortunately, some setups include a symlink that makes these paths the
>same.

If I could get rid of ALL the symlinks in the package I would indeed
be an happier person.
Having said that, and considering backports, the actual plugin
situation (*) and the fact that this is a one-off problem I'm not very
inclined to this (yet). After squeeze is released I think I should
revisit this but I also think some effort should be done
distribution-wise (also including derivatives, I cc the Debian and
Ubuntu mozilla teams).

C.
(*) There is a general trend to steer from the old harcoded path, or
at least try to have a standard location, which seems to be at least
followed by firefox (iceape), konqueror and chromium-browser. So far,
all plugin packages I know of still use symlinks though, I believe for
back-compatibility.



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