From: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
To: "Mike Gerwitz" <mtg@gnu.org>,
"Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>,
guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:20:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180830092026.rxggrpte3icbpc57@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180830090739.ipok3j52vgswqlbc@abyayala>
Nils Gillmann transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> 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.
Addition: Aurora 52.7.2 is the last version I have packaged without
the mandatory rust.
> > --
> > Mike Gerwitz
> > Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
> > GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05
> > https://mikegerwitz.com
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 9:03 Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 15:24 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-08-29 16:14 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-08-29 18:16 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-29 21:25 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-29 22:35 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 23:26 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-30 7:43 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 1:12 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 5:14 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 9:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 10:04 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:01 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 13:30 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 16:35 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 9:07 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 9:20 ` Nils Gillmann [this message]
2018-08-30 16:38 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 8:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 8:54 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 14:23 ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-01 14:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 17:31 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-01 20:28 ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-02 13:54 ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-01 17:53 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-01 23:18 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-03 20:57 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-04 8:13 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-02 5:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 6:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 8:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 10:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-02 13:29 ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-04 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-02 6:52 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-30 9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-07 9:29 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-15 10:36 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 13:28 ` Chromium channel Marius Bakke
2018-09-17 14:16 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 18:08 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-17 17:57 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-22 12:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] <mailman.598.1535619290.1280.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2018-08-30 23:38 ` Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Benjamin Slade
2018-08-31 16:57 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-09-01 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 18:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-02 4:57 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-09-05 20:57 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
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