Bug#776833: diffpdf: Homepage field incorrect or not relevant anymore?

[Martin Kimmerle]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:13:49 +0100 Johannes Schauer  
> I visited http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html, the URL in the Homepage

field and found a commercial, proprietary tool for Windows only.


Correct, but there's still a website for the open source edition:
http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf-foss.html

FWIW, I've created a list of DiffPDF-FOSS forks:
https://gitlab.com/snippets/1894101
would be great if those could be merged somehow..

cheers, Martin

Bug#786565: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#786565: iceweasel: breaks xul-ext-requestpolicy

[Martin Kimmerle]

>> I suppose Iceweasel 38 will migrate to Jessie soon, as Firefox's
>> new/next ESR release is version 38.
> 
> That’s not likely to happen with the next point release (scheduled in
> less than two weeks), but probably with the following one (due in a few
> months).

Good to know. Seems like Fx31 ESR is supported until Fx40 is released as
stable, see
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

>> Is that a problem for continuity in the debian repo?
> 
> Going back to 0.5 now that 1.0 is in unstable is not straightforward,
> but since we are merely preparing the next stable release (Stretch,
> probably due in two years), RP 1.0 (or more) will probably be stable at
> that time ;).

Yes, that's what I suppose as well.

Regards
Martin



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Bug#786565: iceweasel: breaks xul-ext-requestpolicy

[Martin Kimmerle]

Hi David!

I am the current maintainer/developer of RequestPolicy, in the name of
the „RequestPolicyContinued“ project [1]. I wanted to let you know that
I've forked the 0.5.x branch a few days ago. Previously our project only
had releases for the (still in beta) 1.0 branch. So the new release has
version 0.5.29, release notes can be found on github [2]. It's also on
AMO [3], but still awaiting review and therefore you can't find it via
AMO's search.

Now about RP in the Debian repos: I see you migrated the 1.0 branch to
sid, but I think the 1.0 beta is not yet ready for the masses. Instead,
I strongly advise to use the 0.5.x branch *at least* for Debian Jessie.
 As soon as I release 1.0.0 stable you can reconsider. Fyi, there's an
issue [4] for the 1.0 milestone.

I suppose Iceweasel 38 will migrate to Jessie soon, as Firefox's
new/next ESR release is version 38.

By the way, the diff between 0.5.28 and 0.5.29 (the RPC release) is
quite small [5]. The main difference is the changed extension ID. Is
that a problem for continuity in the debian repo?

Regards
Martin


[1] https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy
[2]
https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy/releases/tag/v0.5.29
[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy-continued/
[4] https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy/issues/446
[5]
https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy/compare/release-0.5.28...v0.5.29



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