Seamonkey 1.1a-3

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:16:07AM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:33:14PM +0200, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I've prepared a package according to the discussion we had here:
> > A seamonkey-common package, and all the parts depending on it as loose
> > packages, so browser, editor, mailnews, chat, etc...
> > It's available here:
> > http://hjh.passys.nl/Debian/Experimental/Seamonkey-1.1a-3/i386
> > 
> > Please tell me what you think.
> > 
> 
> I have not yet installed the packages.
> 
> You should not package this as a native package. We need a diff.gz + an
> orig.tar.gz instead of the tar.gz you produce.

And tarball in tarball is ugly. I'll also try to take a look at the
packages soonish.

> In addition, I guess you are missing the transitional packages. You
> should produce empty packages named exactly as those in sarge. for
> instance, mozilla-mailnews would be an empty package that depends on
> seamonkey-mailnews. For details, take a look how firefox and
> thunderbird did the transition from mozilla-firefox to firefox and
> mozilla-thunderbird to thunderbird.

Except that needs version tricks for seamonkey. It will be much easier
to do the transitions package with the mozilla source package.

Mike