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Re: mozgest packages



Celso González <celso@bulma.net> writes:

> Hi, i'm trying to package the enigmail and enigmime mozilla plugins and 
> I have seen that almost every mozilla related package is based on a 
> precompiled xpi.
> Normally the debian package unzip the xpi and install evrything
>
> Usually these xpis are based in a c or c++ sources that are compiled 
> using a mozilla build tree.
>
> There is a package (mozilla-dev) that provides several utilities to 
> compile this plugins without a mozilla build tree.
>
> I think the right way to generate the debian packages is using the 
> sources not the xpi ¿is the right way or i'm wrong and the unzip of xpis 
> is a good solution?

Mozgest is not compiled; the source code is javascript.  I don't know if
all other xpi's are similar.  If some do contain pre-compiled object
code, then you are correct--these must be built from source.

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