NAME¶

xpi-repack - repack a xpi file into a tarball

SYNOPSIS¶

xpi-repack [ options] xpi-file

DESCRIPTION¶

xpi-repack is a helper tool for packaging XUL extensions. It repacks the given xpi file into a proper tarball that can be used as source tarball for the Debian package. It is designed to work with uscan. Here is an example for debian/watch: version=3 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/<id>/<package>-([\d\.]+)-.*\.xpi debian xpi-repack

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

Display a brief help message.

-p package, --package=package

The package name will be used for naming the resulting tarball. If this parameter is not provided, the source package name in debian/control will be used.

-u version, --upstream-version=version

The version will be used for naming the resulting tarball. You have to specify this parameter.

-v, --verbose

Print more information.

AUTHOR¶

Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>