From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nils Gillmann Subject: Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:23:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20180403192352.5zpe5oubs23q3jvd@abyayala> References: <20180403154921.54d270f6@alma-ubu> <20180403164841.zufdw64rxcgb6xic@abyayala> <87tvsscdqe.fsf@netris.org> 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]:37386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3RWq-0003FV-45 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:23:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3RWp-00053I-3S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:23:36 -0400 Received: from conspiracy.of.n0.is ([2a01:4f8:1c0c:7ad0::1]:46928) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3RWo-00052u-OU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:23:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tvsscdqe.fsf@netris.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: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel , Nils Gillmann Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes: > Hi Nils, > > Nils Gillmann writes: > > > Björn Höfling 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? No. It just exists in a branch in an (experimental, fluid) repository where other nonfree software (partially as a base for other builds to be upstreamed) is located in, which is why I mentioned "policy reasons". If that's an exception I could link to the cgit, I'll do it of course. If the repo is not okay, I can send a mbox formated patch. > 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_Free_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