Packaging compiled software.

Hello,

I'm currently using a Launchpad PPA as the main repository for Peppermint OS. Some discussion has been brought up in the Peppermint team about switching from the Ubuntu Firefox builds to using the vanilla Mozilla builds, not dissimilar from what Ubuntuzilla is doing. Honestly I'm considering moving to more vanilla packages for many of the major applications currently in Peppermint.

Essentially what we would be doing is unarchiving the available tar.bz2 archives directly downloaded from Mozilla and packaging them in .deb format. My question is that since this software is already compiled, will it cause any sort of issue when uploading for a build here in Launchpad. The packaging format would be similar (if not identical) to most of the Peppermint specific packages currently available in the PPA (the source contains a set file structure and that file structure is copied directly into the package). The only reason I'm not considering using Ubuntuzilla directly is on account of the fact that they don't package Beta builds which is something I'm wanting to experiment with further and something I'd like our community to be able to experiment with further.

The .debs are building fine locally, but I wanted to run this by you guys before I started doing this. Full source for these packages would be available via a combination of "apt-get source" and a download directly from Mozilla.

What do you think?

Kendall Weaver