Hi Kelson, hi Renauld, hi Vasudev, I have spent another hour getting kiwix fixed in Debian and failed.
In Debian testing/unstable there will be no xulrunner binary anymore. It gets replaced by "iceweasel -app <inifile>".
I have tried to patch that change into the current code base we have been recommended by Kelson [1] and the patching of autoconf/automake files fails. It is not possible to run autoreconf on the kiwix source tree. So basically, the current Git snapshot of Kiwix we have is sort of a mess and not usable at all.
We have kept the broken kiwix in Debian far too long. If you cannot provide a source tree of kiwix that fullfills the following requirements within the next two weeks, I will file a removal request for kiwix against ftp.debian.org.
The requirements for a new source snapshot (or release) I have are these: o calling autoreconf must work on the sourceso the sources must not contain any build-crufted files (Makefile.in, config.*, configure, etc.)
o the replacement of xulrunner by iceweasel must be implemented by upstreamLet me know if this is feasible for you (so I can file the removal request right away). If you provide me with working sources by Oct. 10th 2014, I will do my best to get Kiwix into Debian jessie. If not, then not.
Greets, Mike [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/kiwix.git/ -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb
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