Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
> Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> > so they would certainly create a mozilla-psm package
> > that would just be equivalent of the psm xpi.
>
> That's exactly the question here: Will that be possible? Some
> expressions of the PSM team suggest the opposite to me.
I haven't gotten that impression - to me it sounds like it won't be
possible to do this directly from a basic build, but not that it won't
be possible at all. But since I've never built Moz, I defer to people
more knowledgeable than me.
Hopefully the situation for psm will be analagous to the situation for
mailnews, xmlterm and chatzilla, which (I believe) can be built either
as parts of the standard tree or as separate XPIs for install later. I
would assume that, if it's possible to build an XPI, it's possible to
build a deb that does the same things.
> > the Debian maintainer (his email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] according
> > to the changelog.Debian file)
>
> Doesn't Myth (IRC nick, don't have an email addrres handy) do the bulk
> of the work today?
---- from /usr/share/doc/mozilla/changelog.Debian.gz ----
mozilla (M18-3) unstable stable; urgency=low
* Uploading to stable (Closes: #75880)
* Added note about UserAgent hidden pref to FAQ
* Added note about being required to download xpi not open it in
mozilla
* Added forgotten start-psm script
* Hopefully, finally fixed the flaming /usr/share/doc/mozilla-dev link
* Linked mozilla-config manpage to undocumented
-- Frank Belew (Myth) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:17:46 -0800
---- end of text extracted from changelog.Debian.gz ----
So we're both right :)
> > Debian seems to be the first
> > distribution to have tried to package Moz "right" (rather than in a
> > world-writable directory or with separate installs for each user).
>
> blizzard's packages install as root (i.e. write-protected for users) as
> well, not?
Ah, didn't know about those. I guess he uses the libjedimindtrick thing,
since he wrote that himself.
Would anyone from the PSM team care to comment on whether the problem
that makes libjedimindtrick necessary is ever going to go away? This
seems to be the primary problem with packaging this right.
Stuart.
