Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Xulrunner freedom bug: how to apply patch?

[Sam Geeraerts]

Christophe Jarry wrote:
> I tried to solve xulrunner freedom bug, but have some problems.
>
> First, I used iceweasel 3.5.8 from Lenny Backports
> (http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/xulrunner-1.9.1) and
> applied:
> -the changes Robert Millan made in our current version of Xulrunner,
> -the bug fix.
>
> I discovered there was no rule to build xulrunner from this version of
> iceweasel under the "debian" directory and I am not able to do all that
> work by myself.

I was wrong before: our xulrunner-1.9.1 is not built from iceweasel, but 
has its own source package. Same in lenny-backports.

> So I looked for the latest version of Lenny Backport's Xulrunner
> prepared by the maintainers at
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=glandium%40debian.org: this is
> xulrunner-1.9.1.11-1~bpo50+1 (see
> http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/pool/main/x/xulrunner/).
>
> I applied the changes made by Robert and the bug fix.
>
> When I `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc', I have a lot of
> dependancy problems. I think those can only be solved by basing metad
> entirely upon current version of Lenny Backport, which sounds unlikely.

I tried "aptitude build-dep xulrunner-1.9.1" on my Yeeloong and that 
didn't complain about missing packages. I'd find it weird if a lot of 
dependencies changed between the current lenny-backports version and 
ours. What packages do you have problems with?

> So where should I go from here? Is it better to:
> -try packaging Lenny's version of xulrunner with bug fix?
> -apply the fix to the metad's version of xulrunner? (Seems the best
> option to me.)
> -wait for Parkes release then fix the bug in it?

I suggest we focus on the current lenny-backports version because I 
imagine that will have some security fixes over ours. If the changelog 
doesn't show any important fixes from our version or it can't be built 
after all, then stick with the current version in metad.