Hi, I recently posted an email about Firefox/xulrunner extensions and dependencies to fedora-devel, but I got no answers, so I'll try this list as well. Here's what I wrote: > As we just saw with nspluginwrapper, packaging things dependening on > xulrunner/Firefox is a bit problematic. My Mozvoikko package was recently > approved by Ville Skyttä > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448215) but he had a good > question about the dependencies: > > "If I understand correctly, using xulrunner-unstable makes this prone to > breakage on updates - is there some versioned dependency towards some > package that could be used so that it would be easier to notice such > cases?" > > I think the answer here is no. Or is there? We just saw what happens if you > hardcode a xulrunner version as a dependency, there will be breakage as > soon as xulrunner is updated. I had the Mozvoikko package from that review > installed as well and it worked fine after the update of Firefox and > xulrunner. So I think I should just leave the xulrunner dependency > unversioned and rebuild the mozvoikko package if I notice the extension > being broken after a xulrunner update. > > I also noticed something interesting about xulrunner-devel and > xulrunner-devel-unstable. Mozvoikko can't be built just with the stable > headers which apparently are in /usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-1.9/stable/. For > example it needs mozISpellCheckingEngine.h. This file can be found from two > locations, however. The xulrunner-devel package puts it > in /usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-1.9/spellchecker/mozISpellCheckingEngine.h > and the xulrunner-devel-unstable package puts it > in /usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-1.9/unstable/mozISpellCheckingEngine.h. Why > are there two copies and is it considered stable or unstable? I'm thinking > it's "classified" as unstable, but why is it in the "stable devel package" > then as well? If anyone has any answers or ideas on packaging the extension, I would really appreciate the feedback. -- Ville-Pekka Vainio -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
