Bug#394566: Status update on conkeror in Debian
tag 394566 + pending
rename 394566 conkeror -- completely keyboard driven xulrunner based web browser
thanks
Hi Luca,
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:43:13PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:57:48AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> >> The new version calls itself conkeror-xr and is no more a Firefox
> >> plugin but a xulrunner based standalone web browser.
>
> Since the old Firefox extension is no more [1], do you still plan to
> call it conkeror-xr or simply conkeror? I prefer the latter and anyway
> without the mozilla- prefix.
Since upstream changed the name back to conkeror again, I plan again
to call it conkeror -- again. :-)
> > ... but depends on xulrunner 1.9 which is not yet in Debian...
>
> xulrunner-1.9 is now in experimental, do you want to wait until it lands
> in unstable or will we see conkeror in experimental as well?
Since it's still in heavy developement I plan to put it into
experimental first. I started working on it a few days after
xulrunner-1.9 hit experimental.
I already have a working, but still quite ugly package, since the
procedure for packaging the software and local installation differs
quite a lot.
My current plan is to rebuild the package from scratch again (and
based on the newest version of xulrunner), now that I know that more
local installation steps than I expected are unnecessary for packaging
and the package will become leaner.
It will btw give two packages: conkeror and
conkeror-spawn-process-helper, since conkeror itself is a non-binary
program (just ar wrapper around xulrunner with the right parameters),
but it contains one little helper program (to workaround bugs in
xulrunner according to upstream) which is written in C. So that one
will go into a separate package, since only a few features of conkeror
(like e.g. editing an input field in $EDITOR) depends on that binary
and you can use conkeror without that package. (conkeror will
recommend conkeror-spawn-process-helper and the package description
will refer to that package, too.)
I can notify you, as soon as I have the new package ready for the NEW
queue, so that you can have a look on it as soon as possible (and
maybe even sponsor it... ;-)
Regards, Axel
--
Axel Beckert - abe@deuxchevaux.org, abe@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/
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