Re: Create package for XUL-based app

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, David Rios wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 00:31 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 18.10.2010, 17:26 -0500 schrieb David Rios:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I want to package a XUL-based application which isn't in Debian
> > > Repository yet. I've read many tutorials, including "Debian New
> > > Maintainters' Guide" but I can't find how to package this kind of apps.
> > > You don't have to compile it (it's an script-based app) so it doesn't
> > > have a "Makefile" file. I use "dpkg-buildpackage" and it creates a .deb
> > > file but it doesn't include my app. Can you help me? where can I find
> > > instructions?
> >
> > You probably want to use mozilla-devscripts to package it. Look at the
> > wiki page [1] and look how other XUL extensions (e.g. adblock-plus) are
> > packaged.
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/mozilla-devscripts
>
> Thanks Benjamin, but this is a standalone app, not an XPI app, and it
> runs using "xulrunner" so I think mozilla-devscripts aren't useful in
> this case. Tell me if I'm wrong.

Take a look at other packages that depend on xulrunner:

 $ apt-cache rdepends xulrunner-1.9.2
xulrunner-1.9.2
Reverse Depends:
  mozplugger
  xulrunner-dev
  xulrunner-1.9.2-dbg
  libmozjs3d
  iceweasel
 |conkeror
  zekr
  mozzemberek
  mozplugger
 |conkeror

Seems like conkeror and zekr are good example packages, from a super quick 
first glance.

Good luck! Keep us posted.

-- Asheesh.

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