Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xulrunner-2.0
Based on the new Firefox release schedule (http://people.mozilla.com/~sayrer/2011/temp/process.html), we need to drop xulrunner from main as unsupportable, else I'm going to risk spending nearly 100% of my time continually providing support for this across up to 5 stable releases, when most applications using it are in universe and probably aren't interesting to much more than 1% of our users. This is a catch-all-bug driving that work. The plan of action is: couchdb - We will introduce a libmozjs source package for main, totally decoupled from the Firefox release process. This will be used by couchdb (and possibly other spidermonkey embedders in univese in the future) icedtea-web - Firefox already provides an SDK now. We will build icedtea-web against Firefox rather than xulrunner. It seems that icedtea-web only really needs Firefox or xulrunner to do a version check in order to decide whether to turn on some XPCOM bits (which are turned off when built against newer Firefox builds). We should consider making this a pure NPAPI plugin and drop the mozilla dependency entirely (but perhaps not Natty timeframe) swt-gtk - We will update swt-gtk to the stable 3.6 2 release, turning on webkit support and turning off mozilla support. This requires some updates to applications in universe which hardcode SWT.MOZILLA. libreoffice-l10n/libreoffice - declares a build-depend on xulrunner-dev, so we need to investigate why and see if we can remove that. gtk-vnc - has a xulrunner-dev build-depend purely for the NPAPI headers. We can build this against firefox-dev, but it really should just ship its own headers (NPAPI is cross-browser anyway) gnome-python-extras - this is a tricky one. The only thing I can think of now is to turn of python-gtkmozembed and drop everything which uses it (not sure how popular that would make me) mozvoikko - this is a firefox extension with binary components anyway, so must be built against firefox (xulrunner and firefox versions won't be kept in sync in the future anyway) packagekit - has a build-depend for the NPAPI browser plugin. Same as above really - either ship its own headers or build against firefox-dev. ** Affects: couchdb (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: gnome-python-extras (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: gtk-vnc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: icedtea-web (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: libreoffice-l10n (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: mozvoikko (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: packagekit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: swt-gtk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: xulrunner-1.9.2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: xulrunner-2.0 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: xulrunner-1.9.2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libreoffice-l10n (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: swt-gtk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: couchdb (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: icedtea-web (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gtk-vnc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: mozvoikko (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gnome-python-extras (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: packagekit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-python-extras in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740815 Title: [FFe] Updates to enable us to drop xulrunner from main -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
