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pyxpcom package

Please remove and blacklist pyxpcom from the archive

Bug #675587 reported by Micah Gersten
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pyxpcom (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Debian's version isn't compatible with our xulrunner. We're also not sure if we can support this across major Firefox/xulrunner updates at this time.

Micah Gersten (micahg)
Changed in pyxpcom (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Just to be clear - the Debian package installs a binary component directly in to /usr/lib/xulrunner/components. On Ubuntu, this is a volatile directory, as it has a version number in it which changes between minor versions. This would mean we'd have to do a pyxpcom update every time we rolled out a Firefox security update.

In general, dropping random binaries in to the application directory is bad, and is strongly discouraged by Mozilla (this is why we have a components.list, to prevent these binaries from being loaded at run time and to discourage vendors from doing exactly this type of thing).

The only correct way to distribute the binary component provided by pyxpcom is to bundle it as an extension.

Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

2010-11-15 15:54:27 INFO Removing candidates:
2010-11-15 15:54:27 INFO pyxpcom 1:0.0~hg20100212-2 in natty
2010-11-15 15:54:27 INFO Removed-by: Martin Pitt
2010-11-15 15:54:27 INFO Comment: not compatible with our xulrunner, LP#675587
2010-11-15 15:54:27 INFO 1 package successfully removed.

blacklisted, too.

Changed in pyxpcom (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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