From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nils Gillmann Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 13:47:44 +0000 Message-ID: <20180517134744.ngrwyjvfx7yod5sq@abyayala> References: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> <87tvrlhi58.fsf@hyperbola.info> <878t8xo9t9.fsf@gnu.org> <20180506125312.aadd4fixeungiwv6@thebird.nl> <87fu2rip0r.fsf@gmail.com> <20180516181028.1a9cd04b@merlin.browniehive.net> <878t8jiiwx.fsf@gmail.com> <87vabm1po2.fsf@gnu.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]:50296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJJFW-0004GR-4e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 09:47:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJJFV-0006ul-1K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 09:47:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vabm1po2.fsf@gnu.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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s transcribed 1.1K bytes: > Hello Katherine, >=20 > Katherine Cox-Buday skribis: >=20 > > E.g. I've seen several people in this thread mention they had already, > > or were trying to, package Firefox (myself included). Had there been an > > official non-libre channel, this work might not have been duplicated. >=20 > There will never be an =E2=80=9Cofficial=E2=80=9D non-libre channel in th= at Guix as a > project will not provide such a channel. >=20 > Now, Firefox *is* free software, so there=E2=80=99s could be an official > =E2=80=9Cfirefox=E2=80=9D package, but in essence, it would have to incor= porate pretty > much the same changes that IceCat provides. >=20 > I wonder why IceCat is based on an ESR, and what it would take to have > it follow Firefox releases more closely. I am not involved or speaking for Icecat, but ESR is moving slower than Firefox "master" channel. This alone is good enough to base on it for long-term support when you are a downstream vendor such as Torbrowser, Icecat, or a simple company running a site-specific Firefox. =46rom Firefox; I remember reading Icecat ran into the same problems buildi= ng beyond 54.x than I have, but I might be wrong. In any case ESR as long as it does provide the Off switch for rust should be kept around. After 54.x it's up to those who solve the problems our build system (and presuable other sy= stems too) gets with the crates. > IWBN if IceCat could be pretty IWBN? What does that mean? > much like Linux-libre, i.e., a set of scripts that semi-automatically > adjusts the Firefox source (I=E2=80=99m not sure if that is the case curr= ently.) >=20 > At any rate, people interested in this should probably team up with the > IceCat people (person?) to see how we can together move in the right > direction. >=20 > Ludo=E2=80=99. >=20