[bug#67512] [PATCH 0/5] Add LibreWolf

[Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv>]

Hi Pierre,

Pinging on this to see if you saw it / have an answer.

Thanks,

  — Ian

Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:

> Hi Ian and Pierre,
>
> Thank you for this!  I hope to do a review soon.  Meanwhile I 
> have one
> question for Pierre: is there any reason why your Wasm work was
> contributed to Nonguix instead of Guix?  It looks like it could 
> be used
> by Icecat.  Would you say it is ready to be added to the Guix 
> repo?
>
> Thank you,
> Clément
>
> On Tue, Nov 28 2023, Ian Eure wrote:
>
>> I mentioned in #guix that I was working on a package for 
>> LibreWolf, and it was requested that I send in patches, so I 
>> am.  These changes are based on the firefox-esr package in 
>> nonguix; I've retained the copyright / authorship notices from 
>> there.
>>
>> LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net/) is a fork of Firefox which 
>> removes the telemetry and advertising, and bundles uBlock 
>> Origin.  It doesn't have the redistribution issues that Firefox 
>> does, its name/logo are under MPL 2.0 and aren't trademarked.
>>
>> I'm new to Guix, and not remotely a browser development expert, 
>> so I don't expect these are ready to be accepted yet, but I 
>> believe they're in good enough shape to have a discussion 
>> about.  They're working acceptably well for me, though I'm not 
>> currently daily driving Guix, so there may be issues I haven't 
>> encountered yet.
>>
>> Guide to changes in this patchset
>> =================================
>>
>> icu4c has been updated to 73.1, and the previous version kept 
>> as icu4c-71.  I encountered consistent failures of the 
>> node@10.24.1 test suite with icu4c 73.1, so I kept that on 
>> 71.1.  icu4c is needed by many packages, so this change is the 
>> highest-impact in the patchset.
>>
>> The (gnu packages wasm) module is unchanged from nonguix, 
>> except for the file header and module declaration.
>>
>> The (gnu packages librewolf) module is a simplified/adapted 
>> version of (nongnu packages firefox).  The Firefox Nightly 
>> packages have been removed, as there's no LibreWolf equivalent. 
>> I also didn't bring over the wayland variant, but I could, if 
>> that's desired.  I'm not sure why there are specific 
>> x11/wayland variants, as the packages for other distros don't 
>> seem to need this split.
>>
>> The librewolf package has some functions duplicated from (gnu 
>> packages gnuzilla), which probably ought to get factored out 
>> and put somewhere, but I'm not sure if they should be in (gnu 
>> packages mozilla) or a different module.  Guidance would be 
>> appreciated here.
>>
>> Ian Eure (5):
>>   gnu: icu4c: Update to 73.1.
>>   gnu: Add icu4c-71.
>>   gnu: node: Switch to icu4c-71.
>>   gnu: Add wasm packages.
>>   gnu: Add librewolf.
>>
>>  gnu/packages/icu4c.scm     |  21 +-
>>  gnu/packages/librewolf.scm | 560 
>>  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  gnu/packages/node.scm      |   4 +-
>>  gnu/packages/wasm.scm      | 273 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 854 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 gnu/packages/librewolf.scm
>>  create mode 100644 gnu/packages/wasm.scm
>>
>>
>> base-commit: 2410a30f6c06d56b5589e0ad685bcdf09bb144bf
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