Hello,
as an information for the archive:
to build the webext packages, you didn't need mozilla-devscripts.
I used it to build the orig.tar.gz from the xpi in former time.
But it is not necessary any more
Regards
MEchtilde
Am 15.12.23 um 10:39 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
Hello Mechtilde,
Am Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 07:09:16PM +0100 schrieb Mechtilde:
Hello Mathias,
thanks for the hint,
At this time mozilla-devscript is needed when you want to build
Mozilla-AddOns from the *.xpi.
So we need to elaborate another way to do it.
I've dropped mozilla-devscripts as an dependency for thunderbird long
ago.
To get the l10n XPI files creatable I picked up the main part of
mozilla-devscripts, the shell script xpi-pack.sh, and placed it within
the debian/ folder.
https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/thunderbird/-/commit/b31360b05e048826571245a2fda26d56592da435
We call this shell script then directly in debian/rules, it's quite
simple and straight forward to use.
https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/thunderbird/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/rules#L134
I think shipping this shell script now in only a few source packages is
acceptable, otherwise we would need to fix mozilla-devscripts with a bit
effort for not really big gain.
Another option could be to move the XPI package build functionaliy into
some debhelper package, but I haven't looked really seriously into any
option.
Regards
Carsten
