XULRunner and you

[Christopher Aillon]

Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:54 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>>> In last week's QA meeting, Chris Aillon (aka caillon, our fearless
>>> firefox/xulrunner maintainer) stopped by to tell us what happened with
>>> xulrunner dep breakage, and how package maintainers can help reduce /
>>> prevent it in the future. Here's a quick summary:
>>>
>>> There are two APIs provided by xulrunner - the stable API (gecko-devel),
>>> and the unstable one (gecko-devel-unstable).
>> Why does xulrunner-devel-unstable provide some of the same headers (at a
>> different path) that xulrunner-devel does? I'm specifically noticing
>> SpiderMonkey headers; though there might be others.
> 
> It's been almost two weeks and this question hasn't been answered yet, any 
> comments anyone?

Hadn't noticed it sorry.  Unstable builds need to be able to use the 
stable headers, too.  The duplication is unfortunate, but it's a 
byproduct of the way the pkgconfig files are done.  They include either 
a stable or unstable subdirectory, and sorting out the symlinks would be 
a pain.