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I finally got seriously into the xulrunner packaging today (see ITP) and managed to get something that is able to run the MyBrowser sample XUL application (provided that you change the MaxGeckoVersion in the application.ini file in the mybrowser directory) and to gracefully let mozilla-browser run, while we override quite a few of its libraries.

As the long term plan for xulrunner is to be the XUL runtime for some (all?) mozilla.org applications, I moved all its libs to /usr/lib, overriding mozilla-browser's libnss3 and libnspr4. Upstream has this special feature that it doesn't support libraries versioning, so that it is usually a mess, but they are supposedly trying to freeze the API, which will hopefully fix a lot of the current issues with mozilla releases.

Anyways, xulrunner provides its own libnspr4 and libnss3 packages (actually, libnspr4.6 and libnss3.10), while diverting the original mozilla-browser files into /usr/lib/mozilla, and provides a libmozjs package providing spidermonkey, and a libsmjs1 compatibility package. The standalone spidermonkey package will have to be removed, it's outdated and redundant.

While libnspr4 and libnss3 from mozilla-browser could be removed and mozilla-browser could use xulrunner's ones, the contrary is not possible for libnspr4 because of some missing symbols. libnss3 is fine, though, maybe I'll allow xulrunner to use it. On the other hand, xulrunner's libmozjs makes mozilla segfaults...

When everything will be ready, I'll make an upload to experimental and will ask galeon, epiphany and other maintainers to check out if they can build their browser with the libgtkembedmoz provided by xulrunner, which is IMHO, the thing we'll have to do some day.

... when you :

• close the wrong bug in your changelog,
• close again the wrong bug when trying to actually close the good one,
• send a mail asking what to do in such case, considering the changes to the BTS... to the wrong adress.

Enough Debian work for today.

Update [2005-08-14 19:07:33+0200]: ... and can't add the correct feed address into Planet Debian on the first try.

... since I last posted. And we got quite some changes around here.

First, on the real life side, I got married almost 2 months ago.
I met my wife in Japan, and guess what ? she's japanese. Her name is Miki (美希), and she is the most wonderful woman I've ever met. She's been learning french for a month now, and she often surprises me with all she already can say in french.

We are now living together in Colombes, not very far from Paris, and I'm still working for British Telecom in La Défense as an application server expert engineer (buzzwords detected). Finding a flat has been quite a challenge, considering how real estates are expecting you to have a stable and huge income, meaning it's quite hard to get something during your "trial period", which, when you start working as an engineer in France, lasts 3 months (and can even be reconducted for 3 more months). In fact, we got the flat a few days before the end of my trial period because it was almost done ; and actually moved in after it being theorically done. Theorically, because it has been reconducted, but the real estates didn't have to know ;). Anyways, now, it is finally over.

I've been offline quite a lot these last months, because of 1. being stuck in a place without net access (which appeared to be wrong, there was an open WiFi access point with ADSL access in the neighbourhood, but I got my laptop back quite late to figure out), and 2. because of Wanadoo (my ADSL provider) and France Telecom being lame and taking a month to configure an ADSL line... and making me pay for it while not having any access, but this story is not over yet...

Anyways, glandium.org has been migrated to my 3 years-old Vaio laptop behind this ADSL connection, and the site has switched today to a mix between the "old" RDF driven site and a WordPress powered blog. I'm hoping to have my own tool some day, but in the meanwhile, I chose to use WordPress. I gave a try to Dotclear, but support for multiple categories is lame, category hierarchy, not supported, and english support has to be done by hand by creating a custom theme.

I created a lame theme which tries to look like what it used to be with the old RDF driven site (WordPress theming just sucks. Truth is Dotclear is not much better). I must say i didn't put much effort in the comments stylesheet (actually, no effort at all).

So here is an almost new glandium.org site, which, I hope, will improve in the future (but Miki won't like it if I spend too much time on it, so it will take time).

On the Debian side, I managed to upload Firefox Deer Park alpha 2 into experimental a while ago, plus some other updates to my packages in unstable. Some more will be coming soonish (same as above, it might take more time than expected ;) ).

This is it ! Accounts have been created, I'm now officially a Debian Developper !

Many thanks to Josselin Mouette, my advocate and sponsor for quite some packages, Wilmer Van Der Gaast, my AM, Graham Wilson and Ardo van Rangelrooij, who sponsored my uploads for libxml2, libxslt and libxml, Sebastian Ley, who sponsored my uploads for ipw2200, Joerg Jaspert, who sponsored my uploads for kxmleditor before I orphan it, and Eric Dorland, who accepted co-maintainance of mozilla-firefox. [And sorry if I forgot to mention someone].

Today, mozilla-firefox 1.0 finally migrated to testing, pushing the old 0.9.3-5 version onto the verge of oblivion. Thanks to Eric, JoshK and the RMs.

Today is also my release of version 1.0-2pre3.1, second preview release of upcoming 1.0-3 (which might just be this one). Help yourself. Changes include:

• an even more robust Extensions Manager,
• usage of firefox's internal locale auto-detection (making it also work with user installed languages packs),
• some cosmetic fixes,
• support for Internet search services in user profiles,
• protection of users who run firefox through sudo without -H option,
• and more...

As you may or may not know, the current trademark policy of the Mozilla Foundation makes it impossible for Debian to distribute the official logos and icons for Firefox. The package shouldn't even be called Firefox, reading this piece of blatant crap.

Anyways, as an individual, I took the right to provide these logos and icons, and create a package that will override the ones installed by the mozilla-firefox package.

The package is called mozilla-firefox-branding, is a pretty bad hack, and is available in my repository. Enjoy.

Update [2004-11-14 16:55:54+0900]: Updated to version 0.2, there was a broken thing in release 0.1.

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