[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] icedove-dev vs xulrunner-1.9.1-dev

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 04/13/2010 03:46 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 06:13:38PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> possibly even more worrisome, some of the include files seem to
>> differ slightly, even in the directories labeled "stable", e.g.
>> HAVE_CPP_2BYTE_WCHAR_T is defined in icedove/stable/xpcom-config.h,
>
> This should definitely be changed. I'm on my way for a better "fix" on
> xulrunner that I hope will be applied to icedove. I'll come back later
> with that.

great, thanks, Mike!

>> is this mini-"dll-hell" going to get us into trouble during the next
>> release cycle?  Could it be avoided somehow?
>
> Not until upstream changes things so that icedove can be built on top
> of xulrunner.

Ah, ok. For future reference, i looked this up in the list of embedded 
code copies in debian:

 
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/secure-testing/data/embedded-code-copies?op=file

and I see that this is an open issue:

  http://bugs.debian.org/561750

and being tracked upstream:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306324

(and a twisty maze of dependencies/blockers on upstream's bugtracker)

I'm afraid i don't know enough about what it will take to get this all 
resolved.  Is there something we can do from the debian side to help 
along a sensible resolution?

	--dkg