From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nils Gillmann Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:07:39 +0000 Message-ID: <20180830090739.ipok3j52vgswqlbc@abyayala> References: <87ftyx35pw.fsf@lassieur.org> <87r2igmzdi.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvIvq-0000bi-T3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:08:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvIvn-0003Bb-Gv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:08:02 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r2igmzdi.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mike Gerwitz Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Mike Gerwitz transcribed 1.8K bytes: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07 +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote: > > Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a > > package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but > > it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes > > freezes my computer). > > This is a big problem. Thanks for keeping up with the status. > > I'll get into contact with the necessary people on behalf of GNU to > figure out the current status of IceCat. > > But as was stated in another thread, once we _do_ have an updated IceCat > source distribution, we need it packaged for Guix, and that is quite the > undertaking. Has anyone pursued packaging modern versions of vanilla FF > in recent months? Yes, I have. The outcome was not so much progress because Firefox starting at a certain version does no longer allow disabling the build of the rust crates. You then need a way to deal with the "breakage" in the directory 'thirdparty/rust/' and its subdirectories. Progress could be achieved with a phase which either records our changes to the checksum related files or reverts our changes. > -- > Mike Gerwitz > Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer > GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 > https://mikegerwitz.com