Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:06:04PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:29:20 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:24:00AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > No, my proposal is to move the package to a better home: backports.
> >
> > Same question as for Md with volatile:
> >
> > apt-cache rdepends xulrunner-1.9.1 libmozjs2d libwebkit-1.0-2
> >
> > What do you do with these packages ? backports too ? Do you realize some
> > of these are part of the core of the GNOME desktop ?
>
> Yes, I would say drop them all. The maintainer should be free to
> choose whether they want to continue to support the package in
> backports, convert the backend to use webkit, or to drop the package
> altogether.
>
> Which of those are gnome core packages? Only liferea, galeon,
> evolution-rss, and yelp stick out to me, but I don't use gnome. Yelp
> has a webkit backend, so the mozilla backend could be disabled.
>
> > Also, using backports doesn't magically solve the issue that all these
> > package need to be updated when there is a new ABI/API (which basically is
> > the case with major xulrunner versions)
>
> I agree, anyone planning to maintain those packages in backports will
> indeed have to suffer through that, but it's just the fact of life
> with mozilla.
Seeing how many problems there still are with webkit backed GNOME
applications, that sure is only a mozilla problem...
Mike
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