From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nils Gillmann Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 15:29:16 +0000 Message-ID: <20180517152916.swplt5md7h4mb5o2@abyayala> References: <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> <20180517134744.ngrwyjvfx7yod5sq@abyayala> <87k1s2gvx8.fsf@dustycloud.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]:48516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJKpk-00019A-7Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 11:28:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJKpj-0003P7-E7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 11:28:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k1s2gvx8.fsf@dustycloud.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: Christopher Lemmer Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Nils Gillmann Christopher Lemmer Webber transcribed 1.2K bytes: > Nils Gillmann writes: > > > Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes: > >> Hello Katherine, > >> > >> Katherine Cox-Buday skribis: > >> > >> > 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. > >> > >> There will never be an “official” non-libre channel in that Guix as a > >> project will not provide such a channel. > >> > >> Now, Firefox *is* free software, so there’s could be an official > >> “firefox” package, but in essence, it would have to incorporate pretty > >> much the same changes that IceCat provides. > >> > >> 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. > > It would be really nice to be able to have tor browser bundle in GuixSD. TL;DR is we can have it and I will pick up work on it again pretty soon. (We had the idea for a custom browser based on Torbrowser, so I have a requirement beyond simply using it.) Under the conditions (for packaging torbrowser) I talked about with Torbrowser-project it is okay to ship it fully branded. I will have to get back to them as soon as I am past the current bug and got it building.