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FS#9786 - mozilla-common is totally outdated!

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Qin Zhu (zhuqin) - Saturday, 08 March 2008, 08:27 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 28 June 2008, 23:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Alexander Baldeck (kth5)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

Description:

Since firefox has been moved from /opt to /usr, this pkg is out of date.
As far as I know, it's lack of maintainer, too.

We can see it's still located at /opt from the file list:

opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/
opt/mozilla/lib/pkgconfig/
opt/mozilla/lib/
opt/mozilla/
opt/
etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
etc/profile.d/
etc/

And the most critical thing is that it has outdated files: mozilla-common.sh & mozilla-plugin.sh, which make other related pkgs (e.g. firefox, mplayer-plugin, flashplugin, xulrunner etc.) cannot be compiled in a right way.

BTW, the jre pkg also creates a soft link here: /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Would someone take care of this?
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 28 June 2008, 23:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  The package is still used, though it's just a profile.d scriptlet now, settig only the mozilla plugin path. The old /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins is still included for compatibility, but will get removed once all is gone from that location.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 09 March 2008, 11:34 GMT
@Alex: should mozilla-common be removed now?
Comment by Justin H (orasis) - Monday, 24 March 2008, 07:25 GMT
Isn't this more properly placed in the package request forum? - Since outdated packages are not technically 'bugs'.
Comment by Manuel C. (ekerazha) - Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 08:38 GMT
If everything is moved to /usr, is mozilla-common still needed?
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Thursday, 19 June 2008, 10:13 GMT
What's the status of this issue?
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Thursday, 19 June 2008, 20:02 GMT
JGC since you are building firefox 3 i think its a great start for the death of this package...
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 19 June 2008, 20:21 GMT
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH isn't needed anymore if we ship all plugins in /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/plugins, but I don't know if konqueror and opera will pick up those plugins then.

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