[Bug 583531] Review Request: mozilla-firetray - A system tray addon for mozilla

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--- Comment #20 from Adam Miller <maxamillion at fedoraproject.org> 2010-08-02 16:07:58 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > NO - Package meets naming and packaging guidelines
> > FIXME: Package should be named firetray as that is the name of the upstream
> > project
> 
> I'd like to point out here that several (all?) existing Mozilla extensions in
> Fedora repos have mozilla- prefix:
> mozilla-adblockplus.noarch : Adblocking extension for Mozilla Firefox
> mozilla-noscript.noarch : JavaScript white list extension for Mozilla Firefox
> 
> It would be really nice to have uniform packaging guidelines for Mozilla
> extensions where one could, among other things, get a sample spec file and
> answers to the following questions:
>  - how to name the source rpm?
>  - how to split files between subpackages if the extension works in
>    several different browsers? For example, should there be a -core
>    subpackage plus a separate subpackage for each browser? (that's what this
>    spec is doing) Or, should we have one package which registers the
>    extension for all browsers?
>  - how to name subpackages?
>  - should subpackages depend on the programs (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.)
>    they are extending?
> 
> Debian's guidelines are here: http://wiki.debian.org/mozilla-devscripts
> They are naming their source package EXTENSIONNAME and binary package as
> xul-ext-EXTENSIONNAME
> 
> Hicam, perhaps you could come up with short guidelines and run it through
> Fedora Packaging Committee first?    

I agree it would be nice to have uniform naming conventions on this, but as it
stands there is none as per
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines and this package is not
upstream as mozilla-firetray but as firetray. 

-AdamM

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