[Debian-hebrew-common] BiDi UI packages (and sponsor needed)

[Baruch Even]

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Lior Kaplan wrote:
> 
>> Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
>> 3. in the rules files you have:
>> ln -s /$(INSTALLDIR) \
>>
>> debian/thunderbird-bidiui/usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/\{54e72d7b-ed31-4736-854f-f517358f21ee\}
>>
>> which results in this:
>> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2006-08-05 01:37
>> ./usr/share/thunderbird/extensions/{54e72d7b-ed31-4736-854f-f517358f21ee}/defaults/preferences/bidimailui.js
>> -> /debian/thunderbird-bidiui/etc/thunderbird/bidiui.js
>>
>>   
> No, it doesn't. It generates the link that (gets turned into):
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   76 2006-08-05 01:39
> {54e72d7b-ed31-4736-854f-f517358f21ee} ->
> ../../../share/thunderbird/extensions/{54e72d7b-ed31-4736-854f-f517358f21ee}
>> there isn't any /debian dir in debian. You could use dh_link instead of
>> doing ln yourself.
>>   
> dh_link doesn't support linking to directories, linda requests that
> files coming from a "Platform: All" package reside in /usr/share/lib and
> not /usr/lib, and Thunderbird seeks the files at
> /usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions. This is the only solution I could think of.

Another package for thunderbird extension, enigmail, has everything in
/usr/lib anyway, try to look at the other packages for thunderbird
extensions and see what they do.

Baruch