Head-up - new firefox in rawhide

[Martin Stransky]

On 11/23/2009 12:34 PM, Martin Stransky wrote:
> On 11/22/2009 02:17 PM, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
>> to, 2009-11-19 kello 14:30 -0800, Christopher Aillon kirjoitti:
>>> Perhaps we should continue to provide -unstable, though. Things that
>>> still need the unstable libs can continue Require -unstable which will
>>> make it a heck of a lot easier to figure out what to rebuild...
>>
>> +1. I'd like to see a decision made soon on whether you will provide
>> -unstable or not. My xulrunner unstable dependent package (mozvoikko)
>> has been broken in Rawhide for a few days now, I'd like to know which
>> will be the best way to fix it.
>>
>
> Okay, what about this:
>
> - all packages should switch to unified mozilla package config files,
> libxul-embedding.pc & libxul.pc. Old libxul-embedding-unstable.pc &
> libxul-unstable.pc will be provided for compatibility.

built as xulrunner-1.9.2.1-0.4.b3.fc13.


> - packages built against unfrozen interfaces will keep BuildRequire:
> gecko-devel-unstable. It helps mozilla team to decide which packages
> should be rebuild in update.
>
> You may identify frozen (stable) interface by:
>
> - at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/EmbedInterfaceFreeze.html
> - at sources - look for "@status" string in appropriate idl file (in
> /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.2), all frozen interfaces have status
> "FROZEN" there.
>
> Recently, a few F12 packages (looks like browser plug-ins only) are
> built against frozen (stable) interface [1] and all others require
> unstable interface.
>
> ma.
>
> [1]:
>
> gecko-sharp2-0:0.13-13.fc12.src
> gnome-chemistry-utils-0:0.10.8-1.fc12.src
> gxine-0:0.5.903-4.fc12.src
> libproxy-0:0.2.3-12.fc12.src
> openoffice.org-1:3.1.1-19.14.fc12.src
> openvrml-0:0.18.3-5.fc12.src
>