Seamonkey

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:45:06PM +0200, Hendrik-Jan Heins <hjheins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/9/22, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> >> 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?
> >
> >I don't think seamonkey-browser would be a good place for that, that
> >would make it a mandatory package if you install some other component.
> >A seamonkey-common or seamonkey-libs package would be more appropriate.
> >
> That might be a good plan, on the other hand: Seamonkey-browser is
> already required to run all other packages (just as it was in
> Mozilla-suite). Sort of a "libseamonkey" package that contains the
> current libnspr and libnss package?

Plus whatever is common to seamonkey-browser, seamonkey-composer, etc.

> >This has to be decided with the release managers.
> >
> Ok, wel.. that'll be up to them then.
> 
> >I was speaking of the libraries (libmyspell3c2 package). The firefox
> >package in experimental does use the system libraries instead of the
> >bundled myspell. That requires a minimal patch that I can provide.
> >
> Hmm, sounds like a nice idea. Could you provide me the patch?

I just remembered I sent the patch upstream, so it is in the bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=229696

> As for the points in your readme: I already addressed several of them
> in the package. However some others are an issue: like the .mozconfig
> file; the patch works great, but I also tried to implement a
> .mozconfig another way; by copying a mozconfig file from the debian
> dir. into the build dir, unfortunately I could not get that to work.
> So maybe someone else can take a look at that.

Just run configure like this:
MOZCONFIG=debian/mozconfig ./configure --more-options

> I'll go into the readme into some more detail tomorrow.

Thanks

Mike