that specific concern is only one symptom of the current situation - at the root of it, is the fact that there is often a significant amount of work involved to prepare each new release of these browsers; and the gnuzilla project is currently under-staffed, and asking for contributors - that has been discussed recently on this list[1]
some of us have been proposing that the ideal solution is for the downstreams that package and distribute icecat, and other FSDG-compliant mozilla-derived browsers, should collaborate more closely with the gnuzilla project, so that the combined efforts could go toward getting official upstream versions out sooner as well as downstream distro packages; rather than repeating the same work on each fork ahead of the upstream, and then advertising each downstream release on this list, while the upstream is still lagging behind generally speaking, anytime a downstream moves ahead of its upstream, without offering back upstream, patches that the upstream would gladly accept for the benefit of all other downstreams, or when an upstream refuses valuable contributions that would benefit it's downstreams, that probably indicates a serious problem somewhere in the ecosystem; one that affects everyone interested in that project - a bit of conversation, coordinate, and collaboration among downstreams and the upstream, could not only solve that problem, but improve the whole ecosystem surrounding the project the link below is an example just recently, when someone started a thread, advertising compiled binaries that were a version ahead of gnuzilla, also explaining the steps that were taken to upgrade, and offering to help gnuzilla to move forward - in that case, the necessary changes were minimal; and that person was asked to join the team - then three days later, a new version of icecat was released - that proved to be a fruitful interaction - gnuzilla just needs more interaction of that sort, from people who are willing to share their packaging experiences and opinions with the upstream [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2019-05/msg00025.html -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
