From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:21:00 -0400 Message-ID: <87pnxvyioj.fsf@netris.org> References: <87ftyx35pw.fsf@lassieur.org> <87pny09rgo.fsf@elephly.net> <878t4oylu6.fsf@aminb.org> <87pnxxfgzc.fsf@gnu.org> <20180901173152.czqoq66rzrslrwif@abyayala> <87lg8larng.fsf@aminb.org> <87lg8kj97l.fsf@fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwV9B-0004Zo-7C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:22:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwV97-0002qU-S9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:22:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lg8kj97l.fsf@fastmail.com> (Marius Bakke's message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2018 15:54:38 +0200") 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: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Marius Bakke writes: > Amin Bandali writes: > >> As for the "lagging too far behind upstream" issue, that doesn't >> seem to be the case anymore: looking at releases on [3] and [4] >> it looks like ungoogled-chromium's latest shipped release matches >> the latest released chromium version. Granted, I have noticed in >> the past for ungoogled-chromium to lag behind the latest release >> by a week or two, that'd still be better compared to the current >> situation with respect to the current Firefox/IceWeasel release. > > Indeed, Ungoogled have catched up pretty well and is a viable choice > nowadays. If it helps get Chromium into Guix I'm all for it. I think it would be much better to explicitly use an upstream project that is specifically focused on ongoing removal of spyware, than to rely on Guix developers to do this ongoing work and to update our list of cherry-picked patches with every update. There is likely to come a time when our attention is elsewhere, and it will sometimes be tempting to update our Chromium package without properly researching whether additional spyware-removal patches should be added. What do you think? Thanks for all of your hard work on this, Marius. Mark