Packaging Debian buttons for Firefox

Tanguy Ortolo tanguy+debian at ortolo.eu
Thu Jan 5 15:43:05 UTC 2012


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Hello,

I discovered a Firefox extension that may be quite useful for Debian
contributors: Debian buttons [1]. It allows the user to add buttons to
the toolbar to do things such as: double-click on a bug number on
$random_software to select it, and click on that button to go to the
corresponding bug page. In fact it currently provides four buttons:
BTS, packages, PTS and MLs. I spoke to its author and there is a fifth
button soon to come: DDPO.

    [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/debian-buttons/

So, my basic idea is to package it, but there is another option that
might be considered: adding it to the iceweasel package by default,
because it could be considered as Debian addition useful for users (let
me emphasize that this extension adds buttons to the list of available
buttons for the users to place them on their toolbars if they want, and
that it does not place them anywhere by default).

Any advice on that? I initially thought of simply packaging it, and the
other option was just another idea that I got, and that I was also
suggested by someone else on IRC.

About packaging, is there something I should be aware of that would not
be mentionned in the wiki? I have seen that there is an Alioth group for
packaging extensions, should I package that within that group?

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