El 24/08/17 a les 11:08, Mark H Weaver ha escrit: > "csh" <[email protected]> writes: > >> Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> wrote .. >> Guix's IceCat package is diffeent? > > We pass different arguments to ./configure than Rubén does when building > the generic pre-compiled IceCat binaries, yes. In this case, that's the > relevant difference, not any changes to the source code. > >> Guix, a GNU distro, doesn't use vanilla GNU packages? > > We generally stick as close to upstream as we can, although in the case > of IceCat we promptly cherry-pick fixes from upstream Firefox ESR since > most of those fixes are for security flaws, and IceCat releases tend to > lag behind. As I write this, that includes 176 upstream changesets. > > Mark
Gnuzilla/IceCat should be a more solid project, and to make it possible, Guix and Trisquel packagers should contribute their fixes to IceCat project, then package from it. Otherwise, you are repeating some efforts and lagging good IceCat versions for newcoming packagers of other distros. -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
