[needs-packaging] pyxpcom

This needs to be created as a new source package: pyxpcom since upstream split it out from the main repository.

the absence of this causes constant warning messages in repo builds of firefox once a second about parts of it that are present but "missing", ie. the files are on disk but its still complaining, affecting battery life; about:buildconfig says python is still being enabled, but from what i've seen its been gone/broken since before 8.04; if nothing has been reported as broken since then, or if there's nothing that depends on it working; why not just remove it from the builds?

from buildconfig:

Configure arguments
--build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr '--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1' --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --srcdir=. --enable-tests --enable-mochitest --enable-system-cairo --enable-system-sqlite --with-system-nspr --with-system-nss --enable-system-hunspell --enable-application=xulrunner --enable-extensions=default,python --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.8 --enable-safe-browsing --enable-startup-notification --with-user-appdir=.mozilla --without-system-jpeg --with-system-zlib=/usr --with-system-bz2=/usr --disable-javaxpcom --disable-crashreporter --disable-elf-dynstr-gc --disable-installer --disable-strip --disable-strip-libs --disable-install-strip --disable-updater --enable-optimize --with-distribution-id=com.ubuntu

to wit;
> --enable-extensions=default,python <

karmic -
firefox:
  Installed: 3.5.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1

Please file a new bug against Firefox for this with the output of the
warnings.

On 03/03/2010 08:32 PM, steubens wrote:
> the absence of this causes constant warning messages in repo builds of
> firefox once a second about parts of it that are present but "missing",
> ie. the files are on disk but its still complaining, affecting battery
> life; about:buildconfig says python is still being enabled, but from
> what i've seen its been gone/broken since before 8.04; if nothing has
> been reported as broken since then, or if there's nothing that depends
> on it working; why not just remove it from the builds?
>
> from buildconfig:
>
> Configure arguments
> --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr '--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1' --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --srcdir=. --enable-tests --enable-mochitest --enable-system-cairo --enable-system-sqlite --with-system-nspr --with-system-nss --enable-system-hunspell --enable-application=xulrunner --enable-extensions=default,python --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.8 --enable-safe-browsing --enable-startup-notification --with-user-appdir=.mozilla --without-system-jpeg --with-system-zlib=/usr --with-system-bz2=/usr --disable-javaxpcom --disable-crashreporter --disable-elf-dynstr-gc --disable-installer --disable-strip --disable-strip-libs --disable-install-strip --disable-updater --enable-optimize --with-distribution-id=com.ubuntu
>
> to wit;
>
>> --enable-extensions=default,python<
>>
> karmic -
> firefox:
> Installed: 3.5.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
>
>

I'll try for beta 2 on this, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to do this for Lucid.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Micah Gersten
<email address hidden> wrote:
> I'll try for beta 2 on this, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to do
> this for Lucid.

That's unfortunate, more because this is a LTS, but it's your time so
there's noting to complain about :)

Building virtualbox sdk depends on it, and building pyxpcom from
source is not as clear as one would expect.

--
 .
..: Lucian

Since I like Virtualbox, I'll try to make a push for it :)

On 03/12/2010 02:19 PM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Micah Gersten
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'll try for beta 2 on this, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to do
>> this for Lucid.
>>
> That's unfortunate, more because this is a LTS, but it's your time so
> there's noting to complain about :)
>
> Building virtualbox sdk depends on it, and building pyxpcom from
> source is not as clear as one would expect.
>
>
>

Missed Beta 2, will try for RC.

unless the server team raises this as a priority, we wont get pyxpcom for lucid.

I don't think this can happen for Lucid. If there is anything in the archive that actually depends on python-xpcom, please let us know. I don't see any rdepends for it at present in Lucid.

There's no reverse dependency because python-xpcom isn't packaged again yet (see #352968 for the previous removal of python-xpcom). Catch-22.

See #459532 for an example of a package that requires python-xpcom. If you decide not to ship python-xpcom, you effectively make Sugar (the desktop / learning environment) unusable for the LTS as the web browser is used to download and install activities (applications) from activities.sugarlabs.org (the Sugar equivalent of addons.mozilla.org). Even more so since Ubuntu doesn't ship all of the most basic activities (e.g. Write is missing).
#364871 has another example for a package (pyjamas-desktop) breaking (indirectly via hulahop) due to python-xpcom being unavailable.

This isn't going to happen for Maverick, and considering we are now beginning the transition to xulrunner 2.0 for Natty, I don't see this happening at all.

Saying that, there is some work happening upstream to make it work with 2.0, so it might be possible for us to support it