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 09:20:26 +0000 Message-ID: <20180830092026.rxggrpte3icbpc57@abyayala> References: <87ftyx35pw.fsf@lassieur.org> <87r2igmzdi.fsf@gnu.org> <20180830090739.ipok3j52vgswqlbc@abyayala> 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]:55388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvJ7G-00079b-Dh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:19:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvJ7B-0000Ge-FO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:19:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180830090739.ipok3j52vgswqlbc@abyayala> 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 , =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur , guix-devel@gnu.org 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 > > >