xpi-* broken since firefox-22

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 26/08/2013 18:59, Florian Smeets wrote:
> On 26.08.13 14:07, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> I don't know whether that's a general problem or just affects me,
>> but since Firefox 22 the xpi-* ports don't work for me any more.
>>
> 
> This was broken for a brief period, it should be fixed though. You might
> need to reinstall the xpis so that the correct links are created.

Thanks, when it happened I installed everything locally and that
probably masks that the ports xpis work again.

>> Any plugin/addon may be added to the ports collection if one or more
>> of the following conditions are met:
>> - The plugin/addon builds/contains native code
>> - The plugin/addon is a dependency of another port
>> - The plugin/addon improves the integration with the base system,
>>   .e.g. it adds support for common environment variables like LANG,
>>   HTTP_PROXY or TZ
> 
> That's the plan anyway. I'm working on it. Enigmail and lightning will
> stay, perhaps the MOZILLA-xpi ports, but I'm leaning to removing those
> too, as they can be installed from addons.mozilla.org just fine. I'm
> just busy and haven't put this up for approval/discussion, yet.

I'm maintainer of 2 xpi- ports. I'm willing to continue maintaining
them if this is the verdict. But my vote is on getting rid of them.

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