a bit more news about xulrunner please

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,
First of all thank you for doing a bang-up job of providing iceweasel
releases. I'm sure it ain't easy with iceweasel/firefox releases
coming up every few weeks as well as provide support  to users.

To come to today's topic, I tried to find out why xulrunner has been
taken out but came none the wiser.

I read the changelog :-

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/i/iceweasel/unstable_changelog

iceweasel (30.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Fixes for mfsa2014-{48-49,51-54}, almost known as:
    CVE-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1534, CVE-2014-1536, CVE-2014-1537,
    CVE-2014-1538, CVE-2014-1540, CVE-2014-1541, CVE-2014-1542,
    CVE-2014-1543.

  * debian/control*: Bump sqlite3 and nspr build dependencies.
  * debian/rules: Don't check autoconf.mk and emptyvars.mk in js/src/config,
    that's not used anymore.
  * debian/browser-dev.install.in, debian/browser-dev.links.in,
    debian/browser.install.in, debian/browser.links.in,
    debian/browser.lintian-overrides.in, debian/browser.mozconfig.in
    debian/control*, debian/extra-stuff/Makefile.in,
    debian/installer/package-manifest.browser, debian/noinstall.in,
    debian/rules, debian/test.mk: Stop building xulrunner packages.
  * debian/installer/package-manifest.xulrunner, debian/dh/*,
    debian/xulrunner*: Removed.


Now can somebody tell me if xulrunner is being embedded into iceweasel
or what, as xulrunner used to be a separate binary and it's no longer
there.

I looked at various places but turned up none-the-wiser.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mozilla-maintainers/2014-June/thread.html
http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/
https://blog.mozilla.org/

and last but not the least http://glandium.org/blog/

I also looked at
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/ and see
the releases are still coming through.

While I don't have any great love for xulrunner (except for the fact
that I know it can be used by any app. to understand xml and show it
to users similar to firefox/iceweasel)

I have noticed from the last year that we have been cutting away
runtime-dependencies but have no idea if that is being done by
iceweasel/firefox/mozilla upstream or just something the team is doing
? From a user point of view just having to upgrade iceweasel is great,
it would be nice to know what the idea is.

Sorry about the longish mail.
-- 
          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
  My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com
EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A  2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8