icecat warning

icecat warning

[Greg Hogan]

Guix,

The icecat package description currently includes the warning:

"WARNING: IceCat 102 has not yet been released by the upstream IceCat
project.  This is a preview release, and does not currently meet the
privacy-respecting standards of the IceCat project."

Why? The icecat project states [1] that since 2019 "icecat is
maintained only as source code". The "download upstream, patch with
makeicecat, build" steps are the process icecat has switched to for
their privacy-respecting releases, so I propose removing this warning.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2022-06/msg00004.html

Greg

Re: icecat warning

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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Hi Greg!

Greg Hogan 写道：
> "WARNING: IceCat 102 has not yet been released by the upstream 
> IceCat
> project.  This is a preview release, and does not currently meet 
> the
> privacy-respecting standards of the IceCat project."
>
> Why?

This warning was added[0] and is still maintained[1] by Mark H 
Weaver [CC'd], an IceCat[2] maintainer.  We should probably 
(continue to) defer to his opinion.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=ad21d767df29f6808b4291a10c0b32bd34b6b5d4
[1]: 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=4e88a7bfcb70f25219d9f2887121ae196431a115
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

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