Christophe Jarry wrote:
Here I have a problem:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
apt-get source xulrunner-1.9
gives me xulrunner-1.9.1.4-2, while debian mipsel version is
(http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xulrunner):
- 1.9.1.15-1~bpo50+1 for lenny backports,
- 1.9.0.19-6 for lenny.
How can this be possible? Is gNewSense metad not up-to-date towards
debian or has debian forgotten to give the sources of their packages?
I should have looked at our xulrunner status before replying. To get
Iceweasel to better suit our needs Robert Millan had once imported
iceweasel and necessary dependencies from lenny-backports [1]. He had
also applied a patch to xulrunner (see [2]). This was before we started
keeping metad packages in VCS, iirc. There haven't been any imports from
upstream for this in quite a while, which is why you're seeing an old
version of xulrunner. I believe importing the backport was done because
Lenny's Iceweasel segfaults on mipsel.
If you're going to create patched xulrunner packages then you should
also apply Robert's patch. I haven't tried Lenny's Iceweasel again. If
it still doesn't work then you should track backports'
Iceweasel/xulrunner. I saw that Iceweasel and xulrunner source packages
are both around 50 MiB. I'm not sure how much further we can abuse
Savannah's bzr hosting [3]. We mostly have small packages in bzr so far.
[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?28177#comment6
[2]
http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/gnewsense/pool/overlays/buildd/byhand/firefox/
[3] https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?107429
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