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.

       -f compression, --format=compression
              The specified format will be used for compressing the resulting tarball.  The formats bz2, gz, and
              xz are supported. When the parameter is omitted, xz will be used for "3.0 (quilt)" source packages
              and gz for all other source package types.

       -v, --verbose
              Print more information.

AUTHOR

       Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>

xpi-repack                                         March 2014                                      XPI-REPACK(1)