Hi,
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:21:54AM -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> > [1] http://noone.org/hg/conkeror/debian -- I currently use Mercurial
> > (hg), but will probably switch to git which can make things
> > easier because conkeror itself uses git.
>
> It might be slightly easier if you used included the conkeror repository
> in your packaging repository via git submodules, or alternatively used
> the subtree merge strategy.
I plan to use git-buildpackage which takes care of the combination of
upstream and packaging repositories.
> >> The -width and -height options advertised are not actually
> >> functional,
>
> > Noticed that, too. It's a known bug in Mozilla since 2000. :-(
>
> >> so they should be removed from the man page.
>
> > I will include hints in the --help output as well as the man page
> > pointing to the bug reports I posted already to the list.
>
> The only bug, though, is that the options are listed in the --help
> output. There isn't anything in Mozilla that could be fixed to support
> those options
Ok.
> Conkeror itself would need to handle them and do something with
> them.
Will it?
Anyway, I can make them disappear completely in the wrapper until
Conkeror supports them.
> One other suggestion I have is that you include somewhere in the
> package the commit name (hash) of the version of Conkeror that is
> incorporated, so that in the case of bug reports it is easier to
> know exactly what version the user has. Possibly a place to include
> it would be application.ini, setting BuildID to the actual commit
> name instead of the string "git". (This is done automatically by the
> build.sh script in preparing the xulapp file, but your Debian
> package doesn't make use of the xulapp files.)
Good idea. I currently see two possibilities: Either package version
(which would look very ugly, e.g. "0.9~git080522-abcdef0123456789"[2],
but visible in bug reports) and changelog, which would be more decent,
but less obvious. I'll think about it.
[2] Can't take the commit hash solely since I need a always
increasing version name.
BTW: Conkeror itself reports version 0.9 with -version. What's
actually the idea behind this? I see three possible interpretations:
+ 0.9 means "not yet 1.0", but there will never be a 0.9 release
("just snapshots" or "0.9 means it's a snapshot")
+ The project works towards a 0.9 release ("pre-0.9 snapshots")
+ The last release which has been made (not publically, if so) was 0.9
("0.9 plus snapshots").
>From what I know about the project, I guess it's "just snapshots", no
0.9 release neither in the past nor a planned 0.9 release in the
future (yet).
Thanks for all the feedback!
Regards, Axel
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Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://noone.org/abe/
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