Bug#752837: About to have broken kiwix remove from Debian

[Mike Gabriel]

Below message has gone to Kelson, Renauld, Vasudev and Debian Edu Packaging Team ML _and_ to a WRONG bugnumber in the Debian BTS.

-> Thus resending this message for the record to the correct bug (#752837)

Hi Kelson, hi Renauld,
hi Vasudev,

I have spent another hour getting kiwix fixed in Debian and failed.







The requirements for a new source snapshot (or release) I have are these:

   o calling autoreconf must work on the sources

   o the replacement of xulrunner by iceweasel must be implemented by upstream



Greets,
Mike

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/kiwix.git/


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In Debian testing/unstable there will be no xulrunner binary anymore. It gets replaced by "iceweasel -app <inifile>". I have tried to patch that change into the current code base we have been recommended by Kelson [1] and the patching of autoconf/automake files fails. It is not possible to run autoreconf on the kiwix source tree. So basically, the current Git snapshot of Kiwix we have is sort of a mess and not usable at all. We have kept the broken kiwix in Debian far too long. If you cannot provide a source tree of kiwix that fullfills the following requirements within the next two weeks, I will file a removal request for kiwix against ftp.debian.org. o the sources must not contain any build-crufted files (Makefile.in, config.*, configure, etc.) Let me know if this is feasible for you (so I can file the removal request right away). If you provide me with working sources by Oct. 10th 2014, I will do my best to get Kiwix into Debian jessie. If not, then not.

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