How different are iceweasel and icecat? could we maybe drop the former and only maintain the latter?
-A On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 05:41:48PM +0200, Nicolás A. Ortega wrote: > 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 Someone reported via parabolaweb that Iceweasel is out of date, so I 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 > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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