Bug#645683: ITP: xul-ext-imkbizle

[erhan kesken <erhan@kesken.org>]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm not sure what the Debian Mozilla team is doing, but Ubuntu has
> removed most Firefox extensions from their archives as it's too big of
> a hassle to keep bumping the version numbers every six weeks in all
> supported distributions. Why can't this addon just be packaged at
> https://addons.mozilla.org/ ?

actually we packaged this addon to be able to make a system-wide
installation on terminals of our company easily. then we thought there
is no reason not to share it.

i think packaging an extension is a good idea for  system-wide mass
installations. it becomes possible by only updating your package list.

and also it's useful if the extension has a dependency. for example
nuxeo's liveedit extension depends libreoffice and a libreoffice
extension and needs user configuration after installation.

for imkbizle case, there may not be a true need for a debian package,
we had just thought it would have no harm :) but we can assure you we
don't make releases so frequently.