[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] mozilla-devscripts has CDBS for mozilla extensions

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:11:17PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:10:52PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:08:52PM +0200, Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > I see on the web page of this team
> > > (http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMozExtTeam) that you have writing
> > > a cdbs class to ease packaging on your to do list. Are you aware of
> > > mozilla-devscripts that recently entered Debian? (See
> > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mozilla-devscripts.html) It contains a
> > > cdbs class for extensions. Have you had a look at it to see if it fits
> > > your needs?
> > Are you talking about xpi.mk? AFAIK this repacks xpi's and doesn't build
> > them from source. The idea was to ease building from source.
> > Cheers,
> 
> Thats a misunderstanding :) ...
I'm glad it is!
> 
> Yes, we also have tools shipped that make it trivial to package
> extensions from .xpis (which makes sense for all non-binary
> extensions), but that doesnt mean xpi.mk is ment to be useful only for
> that.
> 
> Point is that xpi.mk is just using .xpi as the _intermediate_
> format. it doesn't matter how you get to that stage; it should work
> for all extensions as all build systems usually provide a way to
> produce a .xpi for the extension.
That's great news. Yes, this sounds basically what I was looking for.
Thanks for the update!
Cheers,
 -- Guido