Bug#819031: jessie-pu: package mozilla-devscripts/0.39+deb8u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 12:02 -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 08:45:02PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 
> > The version of mozilla-devscripts currently in Jessie generates
> > references to the iceweasel and icedove packages.  But iceweasel is to
> > be replaced with firefox-esr, and icedove is probably going to be
> > replaced with thunderbird.
> 
> FWIW, I’ve reviewed Sean Whitton’s changes, built the mozilla-devscripts
> in Jessie, and tested it there in order to rebuild some xul-ext-*
> packages. I believe those changes are short, fine, and will allow us to
> make an “as smooth as possible” transition from iceweasel to firefox
> (and icedove to thunderbird) whenever those packages reached stable
> (i.e., probably via stable-security, thus the idea to push those changes
> prior to the forced transition). I’m happy to upload this package in a
> timely manner if you agree with this proposal.
> 
> Packages built with this latest mozilla-devscripts can be installed with
> iceweasel as well as firefox, here are a few examples of binary debdiff,
> for xul-ext-noscript and xul-ext-adblock-plus, between the version
> currently in stable and the no-change rebuild with this version of
> mozilla-devscripts.

Thanks for the review and the examples. Please feel free to upload.

Regards,

Adam