With Firefox 47, the Selenium Webdriver API calls are barely supported by Firefox. They need to be funneled through a WebDriver proxy geckodriver which translates the requests to their own internal driver Marionette.
To be able to run Selenium tests for Firefox 47+ we thus need a Debian package for https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Initial debianization | operations/debs/geckodriver | master | +1 K -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duplicate | None | T138095 Cucumber tests won't run locally on firefox 47 | |||
| Resolved | zeljkofilipin | T137561 Firefox v47 breaks mediawiki_selenium | |||
| Declined | None | T137797 Create a Debian package for https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver for at least Debian Jessie |
Mentioned in SAL [2016-06-14T11:21:50Z] <hashar> T137797 Created Gerrit repository operations/debs/geckodriver to package https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver
rustc and the cargo package managers are not available in Jessie though they are in testing/unstable. I have build a preliminary package for unstable which embed dependencies fetched by cargo.
https://people.wikimedia.org/~hashar/debs/gecokdriver_0.8.0/
Rust source package: https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/rustc
Moritz has offered a quick review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/294293/
Thanks to @zeljkofilipin I got a basic run working T137561#2385012
Now going to reach out to the ops internal mailing list to have advices regarding packaging a rust based application given:
Perhaps put it on Debian too, so others could apt-get it, without having to change their sources.list.
Change 294293 abandoned by Hashar:
Initial debianization
Reason:
Thanks for the review.
Debian has some work going on to make it easier to package using the Cargo package manage, but all of that is pretty much experimental for now.
It is not like I can sink resources in figuring out all the arcane of moving edge Debian packaging. Given Firefox is less than 8% of our traffic, we will probably just drop Firefox support partly due to lack of a selenium web driver but also because it is simply not worth the time investment.
Abandoning this change meanwhile. We can always reopen later on.
From https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/294293/
Debian has some work going on to make it easier to package using the Cargo package manage, but all of that is pretty much experimental for now.
It is not like I can sink resources in figuring out all the arcane of moving edge Debian packaging. Given Firefox is less than 8% of our traffic, we will probably just drop Firefox support partly due to lack of a selenium web driver but also because it is simply not worth the time investment.
Abandoning this change meanwhile. We can always reopen later on.