[Bug 1030504] [NEW] Please ship pkg-config file lixbul.pc in firefox-dev

[Alexander Korsunsky]

Public bug reported:

In the firefox-dev package for Ubuntu Oneiric there used to be a pkg-
config file for XULRunner, namely /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxul.pc.

This allowed binary extensions to be configured and built in a sane way.

In the Precise version of firefox-dev, this file has been removed due to
the "Removing XULRunner from oneiric" effort [1].

Unfortunately, this effectively breaks proper build configuration for
third-party binary extensions, such as mozilla-gnome-keyring [2] and
forces the Ubuntu package [3] to use hardcoded paths.

I don't see any point in "hiding" the XULRunner interface in Ubuntu, since this is what locks Ubuntu out for interesting binary firefox extensions.
Other distributions such as Fedora and Debian still ship the libxul.pc file.

Please include the libxul.pc file in the firefox-dev package.

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[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2011-May/007088.html
[2] https://github.com/infinity0/mozilla-gnome-keyring
[3] https://launchpad.net/~fat-lobyte9/+archive/ppa-public/+packages

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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