On Tue, 7 May 2019 20:55:00 -0400 zach wrote: > I don’t think there has ever been an official Debian package > of GNU IceCat, but I may be wrong. I do know that Debian uses > the IceWeasel project as their main web browser, but I’m not > sure where exactly that comes from.
there has not ever been an official debian package of 'icecat' - there has been an open packaging request for some years; but no one has picked it up yet https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637348 as for debian iceweasel, that was only ever a re-branding of the stock firefox release, when debian concluded that the mozilla trademark policy precluded LTS back-porting (presumably this was before firefox had the LTS (ESR) release) - a few years ago, debain and mozilla came to the agreement that debian could use the firefox branding and they simply stopped re-branding it - the debian firefox package is now named 'firefox-esr' in order for there to be an official debian package of 'icecat', someone would firstly need to volunteer to maintain the package; but it could be rejected as a duplicate, because it is the same browser as the debian 'firefox-esr', only with a different default configuration, and some features omitted (most notably DRM support) -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
