1598996 - Add-ons upload does not give any debug information about why an addon from file appears corrupt

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[13hu]

Attachment: Addon XPI corrupt without additional info or debug context

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Install add-on from file
  upload the add-on from bug 1598994

Actual results:

"This add-on could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt." is the only message

devtools debug tab and console don't show anything

Expected results:

more detailed debug message in debug tab or somewhere

As a dev , I need more meat on these bones to know what the heck is actually going wrong with my extension

Comment 1

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

There is some documentation at https://extensionworkshop.com/ about workflows for developing extensions.
In short: use about:debugging or the web-ext command line tool, or for regular xpi installation (with signatures disabled), open the browser console.