[Users] mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Brooks" <jbrooks at redhat.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:26:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu
> 
> On 10/17/2012 12:11 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> > Ideally this should be included in the core distro.
> > It's worth adding your input to the request in launchpad [1] to
> > help the distro maintainers prioritize it.
> >
> > Jason created a PPA that's reference in the bug that I'm sure still
> > works.
> 
> spice-xpi is a little tricky because it needs to be rebuilt for every
> firefox rev -- and as we all know, those happen constantly. My ppa is
> a
> bit broken at the moment, as I was trying to get autobuild working,
> and
> working on all the supported current ubuntu revs (and their ff build
> deps keep changing from release to release).
> 
> I'll try to get it working again, at least for the current ubuntu
> release.
> 
> Jason

I think the solution is to drop the xpi usage, in favour of MIME type and standard client[1].

Less integration issues, more security for users.

Regards,
Alon

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843410