[Note that Iceweasel wasn't a Firefox fork but Firefox itself] A "package sponsor" needs to be found to help in IceCat packaging and uploading to "unstable" repository. Firefox pachage maintainers could be asked for this (?) https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firefox-esr
Here some information about the process: https://mentors.debian.net/ El 24/04/17 a les 07:27, Dimitris Arvanitis ha escrit: > Hallo! > > I would love to see GNU IceCat as Debian package. Moreover, I have never > understood why Debian, considering itself as THE GNU OS, has not assumed > GNU IceCat as its default browser, but has first maintained its own > parallel variant, Iceweasel, and now even switched to standard Firefox. > If their resources were used to assume responsibility over IceCat, many > good things could happen, and Rúben would be relieved to some degree, > not having to take the whole burden of maintaining IceCat. > > How could we convince Debian of taking care of IceCat and make it its > standard browser? > > Dimitris > > Am Freitag, den 21.04.2017, 09:16 +0200 schrieb Narcis Garcia: >> This Debian RFP is unattended since 2031, and I'm discussing about >> Debian policy to install by default M.Firefox without any privacy care >> for the user. >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/637348 >> >> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
