[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#1058698: mozilla-devscripts should be removed from testing/unstable

[Mechtilde Stehmann]

Hello,

as an information for the archive:

to build the webext packages, you didn't need mozilla-devscripts.

I used it to build the orig.tar.gz from the xpi in former time.

But it is not necessary any more

Regards

MEchtilde

Am 15.12.23 um 10:39 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> Hello Mechtilde,
> 
> Am Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 07:09:16PM +0100 schrieb Mechtilde:
>> Hello Mathias,
>>
>> thanks for the hint,
>>
>> At this time mozilla-devscript is needed when you want to build
>> Mozilla-AddOns from the *.xpi.
>>
>> So we need to elaborate another way to do it.
> 
> I've dropped mozilla-devscripts as an dependency for thunderbird long
> ago.
> To get the l10n XPI files creatable I picked up the main part of
> mozilla-devscripts, the shell script xpi-pack.sh, and placed it within
> the debian/ folder.
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/thunderbird/-/commit/b31360b05e048826571245a2fda26d56592da435
> 
> We call this shell script then directly in debian/rules, it's quite
> simple and straight forward to use.
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/thunderbird/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/rules#L134
> 
> I think shipping this shell script now in only a few source packages is
> acceptable, otherwise we would need to fix mozilla-devscripts with a bit
> effort for not really big gain.
> 
> Another option could be to move the XPI package build functionaliy into
> some debhelper package, but I haven't looked really seriously into any
> option.
> 
> Regards
> Carsten