On 21 October 2012 18:14, Jauhien Piatlicki <jpiatli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > May be a stupid question, but > Both firefox and thunderbird have xul library. Before there was a > separate package xulrunner in the tree, but as Mozilla does not provide > it as a separate package now (as far as I remember) both firefox and > thunderbird use there own libxul.so. It seems this is the same library > (Or am I wrong?). So may be it could be splitted into a separate > package? (The reason is its compilation takes a lot of time on week > machines and compiling it one time would be better than twice). Also as > far as I can see xulrunner is splitted into a separate package in Debian > and at least Iceweasel uses it. > > Jauhien >
AFAIK, building Firefox and Thunderbird (and let's throw Seamonkey in there while we're at it) against a shared libxul is considered unsupported by upstream, which is why we do not do it. If compile times of mozilla products are annoying for you, feel free to try the -bin variants instead (firefox-bin, thunderbird-bin, seamonkey-bin). The dependencies aren't too crazy, they work pretty well, they get stabilised at the exact same time as the source packages and I try to bump them as quickly as or quicker than the source builds.
