735973 - Add debian packaging for xulrunner-dev

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

Attachment: xulrunner-dev debian packaging

I think it would be nice to have xulrunner-dev debian packaging. in order to build install and develop native Gecko extensions, and use it for building external gecko embedding environment

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

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xulrunner-dev debian packaging

I'm skeptical that we really want to have packaged SDKs, but in any case I don't know anything about DEB packaging and don't want to be responsible for maintaining it ;-). So bouncing this to glandium and he can decide if he wants to be responsible for it!

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

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xulrunner-dev debian packaging

(In reply to Benjamin Smedberg  [:bsmedberg] from comment #1)
> Comment on attachment 606095 [details] [diff] [review]
> xulrunner-dev debian packaging
> 
> I'm skeptical that we really want to have packaged SDKs, but in any case I
> don't know anything about DEB packaging and don't want to be responsible for
> maintaining it ;-). So bouncing this to glandium and he can decide if he
> wants to be responsible for it!

I know this is going to be much more work for whoever implements this, but I'd really rather see something that improves toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.mk to do .deb packaging, rather than continue risking this deb generation stuff in xulrunner/installer being outdated.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

XULRunner has been removed from the Mozilla tree: see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/_rFMunG2Bgw for context.

I am closing all the bugs currently in the XULRunner bugzilla component, in preparation for moving this component to the graveyard. If this bug is still valid in a XULRunner-less world, it will need to be moved to a different bugzilla component to be reopened.