From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:14:54 -0400 Message-ID: <87tvndno8x.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87ftyx35pw.fsf@lassieur.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35553) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv37T-0001cf-Fx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:14:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv37Q-0006e4-DA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:14:59 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:39580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv37Q-0006d6-88 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:14:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ftyx35pw.fsf@lassieur.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: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Cl=C3=A9ment Lassieur writes: > Hi, > > 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). > > So the question is: can we push the Chromium package? I've read it's > almost ready[2]. It's probably far better than everything we have, > despite not being totally 'finished'. Maybe we can add what's left to > do as a TODO and fix the package later? +1 on this. Considering how well attacked browsers are, not providing a generally usable recent browser is putting our users at risk.