752840 - Add make package-compare step for Thunderbird builds

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

The old MoMo automation had a make package-compare step that was run soon after the make package step.

At the moment, this is a highly useful way of working out what has caused bustage of unit tests if a change lands in mozilla-central without adjusting our packaging as well.

Bug 551638 is relevant, but that's more for making it work for FF.

At the moment, we haven't got a better solution for this, so I'd prefer to at least have something listed that I can get people to reference if there are issues.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

With the work going on in the build system, I'm hopeful that this would be resolved via the build system itself in the next few months or so, therefore I don't think its worth the work to get this updated and fixed here.