[Slackbuilds-users] xulrunner deprecation

Matteo Bernardini matteo.bernardini at gmail.com
Fri May 13 12:55:29 UTC 2016


2016-05-13 14:06 GMT+02:00 Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org>:
>> as Andrzej reported xulrunner overwrites files from the mozilla-nss
>> package in Slackware.
>>
>> also there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner#Deprecation
>>
>> it seems that the best option for the moment would be to remove this
>> and the things that depends on it (evolus-pencil, gnash, vuze) from
>> our repository for 14.2.
>>
>> please express any alternative proposal regarding xulrunner and what
>> depends on it.
>
> as of evolus-pencil, a simple sed should fix this
> sed -i "s|xulrunner|firefox|" $PKG/usr/bin/pencil
>
> and then we can remove xulrunner dependency

maybe also vuze could be easily fixed, but let's hear it from its maintainer...

Matteo


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