On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 11:20:43AM -0400, Luke Shumaker wrote: > Hi all, > > Someone reported via parabolaweb that Iceweasel is out of date, so I > began to look in to how to update it (having been the original > packager of Iceweasel when it first came to Parabola; before handing > it off to Emulatorman). > > When I first added Iceweasel, it was by mimicking ConnOS (our then > sister distro), and imported Debian's rebranded Firefox. > > (This had the added benefit that Debian applied portability patches > to support architectures that Firefox upstream didn't support; this > was very useful when we had MIPS support) > > However, ConnOS no longer exists as an Arch derivative (it shut down > for a while, then came back as a Gentoo derivative), and Iceweasel no > longer exists in Debian; Debian now ships proper Firefox. I hadn't > realized that about a year ago "Debian Iceweasel" became "Parabola > Iceweasel" and Emulatorman began maintaning the Iceweasel patches > outside of Debian. > > Trisquel Abrowser is Trisquel's rebranded Firefox (and is distinct > from (the former?) Ubuntu Abrowser). It is maintained by quidam, who > is also the maintainer of GNU IceCat. We always had to maintain a set > of patches *on top of* Debian's patches, to address FSDG concerns; if > we import from Trisquel, that maintenance effort goes away. > > (I also expect this to take care of architecture-patching; Trisquel > inheritys from Ubuntu which inherits from Debian; but it this isn't > a sure thing, it is possible that we may have to still deal with > pathing for ARM.) > > I think that it makes sense to cooperate with Trisquel, rather than > duplicate the effort. > > As for having both Abrowser and IceCat; Abrowser tracks the latest > Firefox release, IceCat tracks Firefox-ESR (Extended Support Release). >
As an IceWeasel user my question is, how easy would the migration be? I realize that lots of Parabola users have a ton of addons and settings for IceWeasel and so on. Also, how would this affect the `iceweasel-hardened' package? I'm pretty sure that it'll be easily transferable, but I have little knowledge of Abrowser. -- Nicolás Ortega Froysa (Deathsbreed) https://themusicinnoise.net/ http://uk7ewohr7xpjuaca.onion/ Public PGP Key: https://themusicinnoise.net/[email protected]_pub.asc http://uk7ewohr7xpjuaca.onion/[email protected]_pub.asc
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