From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:05:29 -0400 Message-ID: <87tvsscdqe.fsf@netris.org> References: <20180403154921.54d270f6@alma-ubu> <20180403164841.zufdw64rxcgb6xic@abyayala> 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]:60748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3RGV-0004rA-6O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:06:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3RGQ-0003qA-Re for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:06:43 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:38678) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3RGQ-0003hf-M5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:06:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180403164841.zufdw64rxcgb6xic@abyayala> (Nils Gillmann's message of "Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:48:41 +0000") 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: Nils Gillmann Cc: guix-devel Hi Nils, Nils Gillmann writes: > Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling transcribed 1.2K bytes: > >> Are there any more recent news on the Thunderbird side? Does anyone have >> more-or-less ready snippets available? > > I can not post the link to straight-out of the box Thunderbird here > (current repository is against the policy in Guix), but if you really > want to work on it I can send you the link offlist (just contact me at > gillmann@infotropique.org). Did someone tell you that you shouldn't post a preliminary Thunderbird/Icedove package definition to this mailing list? If so, can you show me the email? It's true that we shouldn't post package definitions for nonfree software on the Guix mailing lists. However, Thunderbird/Icedove has only a couple of known freedom issues which have apparently already been addressed in Parabola GNU/Linux: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_F= ree_System_Distribution_Guidelines#Thunderbird Given that a GNU FSDG compliant version of Thunderbird/Icedove already exists, and that we could surely apply the same fixes to our package, I see no problem with you posting your preliminary package definition. Please do so. It would enable other interested developers to continue your work. Regards, Mark