Main Inclusion Report for sourcepackage xulrunner-1.9

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xulrunner-1.9; available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • Prospective build dependency of yelp, epiphany, devhelp and others
   • replacement for firefox 2 as the default gecko provider
   • dependency of firefox 3

3. Security:

   • upstream will provide security supports for xulrunner 1.9 through firefox 3 releases.

4. Quality assurance:

   • The package works out of the box.
   • No debconf questions are asked.

   • http://www.mozilla.org is an active and well known project with lots of employed and volunteer contributors

   • http://bugzilla.mozilla.org: has plenty of bugs

5. Standards compliance:

   • xulrunner is a SDK + a runniner. Its not a traditional lib. The package ships everything in pkglibdir.

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ? Its not a real library, but an SDK + a runner. Thus, soname versioning does not apply as it ships its own mechanism to detect and load the dependent libs of the right runner (gecko runtime).

   • Packaging System: We use cdbs + quilt to maintain this package.

6. Dependencies:

   • All general dependencies are in main. currently animated png lib + sqlite + cairo are shipped in-source and are thus more or less duplicated. We try to resolve this situation until firefox 3 final release.

7. Background information:

   • The XulrunnerGecko page outlines the peculiarities and transition steps for xulrunner in the wiki.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/173922

The author of this report should put their name here; reviewers will add comments etc. too