Seamonkey

[Hendrik-Jan Heins]

Hello Mike, Jaldhar, list,

To start off with this: Jaldhar, I have been trying to reach you
before, but without succes. And as you didn't mail in the list
anymore, I assumed you lost interest in the work. I'm sorry, I didn't
want to mess with stuff you are working on, but as everything seemed
to go very quiet after your version of Seamonkey, I decided to give it
a shot.
For now my account on alioth is: hjheins-guest (the guest part was
added by the system).

As for the packaging: I actually agree more with Mike on that one: I
am a Mozilla/Seamonkey only user (so no konqueror or Firefox), but I
don't use the complete thing. I only use the mailnews and browser
package. So I think I'd like the idea of the separate packages and a
install-all package for people who want the complete works.

As for the library locations: yes, I did put the libnspr and libnss
files in /usr/lib/seamonkey as that was the only way to avoid issues
with xulrunner packages. I also put all devel packages in
/usr/include/seamonkey.
At the moment I actually doubt the functionality of separate libnss
and libnspr packages, as they serve no purpose except that they are
needed for Seamonkey itself. So maybe they can be packaged in the
seamonkey-browser package?

As for what version to use: I don't know that much about Debian
release cycles, but I tend to agree with Alex Vincent that it is
useless to go for the 1.0.x version when 1.1 is so close. I actually
have been testing with 1.1a already, and it is completely stable, so I
see no reason to start on 1.0.x right now as 1.1 is just around the
corner.

About the spellcheck libs: I just did what the old Mozilla package
also did: I linked the myspell location of Seamonkey to the location
of the system myspell files. This way Seamonkey uses the system
installed dictionaries for spellcheck. In practice this means that
/usr/lib/seamonkey/dictionaries is linked to /usr/share/myspell/dicts.
So Mike, could you elaborate on what you mean with your remark about
the spelling files, as I don't really understand what you want to do
differently?

cheers,

Hendrik-Jan