On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:53:19 +0100 Mike Hommey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:56:36PM -0600, Reed Loden wrote: > > Nope, Debian Iceweasel is not the same code as Mozilla Firefox. > > Debian's Mozilla maintainer modifies the source code in several ways > > (that I will not go into here). He's very good about attempting to > > upstream changes to Mozilla, but he does have a number of patches that > > Mozilla developers have said are wrong and should not be done. > > That's pretty old information. Please stop this FUD. I do apologize if my information is out-of-date on this particular issue. I will admit it has definitely been a while since I looked at Iceweasel's patch base, so I could very easily be wrong in this case. When I get a chance, I'll take a look at Iceweasel's diff sometime to update my personal knowledge of what all it modifies from upstream code. However, I think it's very reasonable to say that for quite a while, what I said did indeed hold true, so I don't think it's FUD in itself -- just possibly outdated information. Anyway, my beef is not with the maintainers of Iceweasel or IceCat. I just have a problem with people making up false reasons for preferring one or the other over Firefox itself. Many regards, ~reed -- Reed Loden - <[email protected]> / <[email protected]> GNU Project [gnu.org] / Free Software Foundation [fsf.org] -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
