[needs-packaging] google gears

Hi,

I have gears 0.5.18 as a firefox extension for i386 and also AMD_64 in my PPA

https://edge.launchpad.net/~stefanlsd/+archive/gears

If you would like to test it, that would be great.

I will look at getting it through REVU into the archive.

Stefan,

I think it would be better if you discard all pre-compiled modules (gecko), some 3rd party libs and link gears against system libs.

Heys,

I agree with you 100%. The problem is google has so many patches to the 3rd party source code to get it to compile. I spent a couple days compiling against system libs, and although I made some progress, I concluded at the moment it wasn't feasable. I opened a google bug re the issue.

I will upload my work to a bzr branch shortly and any help would be appreciated.

Attached is a bit reviewed and changed version of diff.gz. See changelog for details.

Thanks Rail, I am busy reviewing this and will upload. Attached we're my changes to get it to build against local xulrunner / gecko.

Here is another iteration which includes your patch, so, gears can be compiled against system xulrunner.

Please, regenerate orig.tar.gz, old one won't build because new get-orig-source moves one file within source tree.

PPA may reject new orig.tar.gz, so you need to remove old package or use newer upstream revision (not tested).

TODO: review lintian's errors(!) and warnings.

To ease building and keep the history I've put the packaging to LP. https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~rail/+junk/gears

Build Mini HOWTO:
$ sudo aptitude install bzr-builddeb
$ bzr branch lp:~rail/+junk/gears
$ cd gears
$ bzr bd

bzr-builddeb will try to get sources by apt-get source, then by running get-orig-source. So to regenerate orig.tar.gz just comment your PPA in /etc/apt/sources.list.

0.5.21.0~svn3334+dfsg-0ubuntu1~ppa2 (bzr revision 6) generates only one lintian warning:
gears source: ancient-libtool third_party/libjpeg/ltconfig

So, I think this package can sent to REVU.

Good news. :)

Removed third party libraries: gtk, libgd, libjpeg, libpng, zlib, icu38, sqlite_google. Build against system libraries is OK (in pbuilder).

orig.tar.gz produced by get-orig-source is ~10M now!

I've pushed gears into REVU. Thanks so much to Rail who assisted with the packaging!

For the moment, you can find our work here https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~rail/+junk/gears

It looks like this version does not work with Firefox 3.5. Can we rebase on the latest Gears release?