From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:10:27 -0500 Message-ID: <87k1s2gvx8.fsf@dustycloud.org> 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> <20180517134744.ngrwyjvfx7yod5sq@abyayala> 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]:42797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJKY4-0008RV-7d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 11:10:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJKY0-0001GQ-UV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 11:10:32 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180517134744.ngrwyjvfx7yod5sq@abyayala> 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: Nils Gillmann Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Nils Gillmann writes: > 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 alread= y, >> > 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= that Guix as a >> project will not provide such a channel. >>=20 >> Now, Firefox *is* free software, so there=E2=80=99s could be an offici= al >> =E2=80=9Cfirefox=E2=80=9D package, but in essence, it would have to in= corporate 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. It would be really nice to be able to have tor browser bundle in GuixSD.