On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:00 -0400, Kevin Dean wrote: > > Wouldn't it make sense to simply port Iceweasel from Debian? I have a > > feeling that Hardy's "Firefox" package will eventually move from the > > beta Gran Paradiso to Firefox itself as soon as 3.0 is released. Using > > Iceweasel 3.0 beta 5 would keep a cleanly branded browser if/when > > Ubuntu uploads that change. > > I doubt FF will get updated myself.
I'm not sure what you mean... Do you think they'll maintain a pre-release for 3 years? What I meant was when it goes from 3.0-beta5 to 3.0 "stable". > You could try and port over > iceweasel from debian, but i expect you'll have problems with ensuring > security updates etc (because of the different release cycles) Not just that... As of right now there's a packaging conflict between Ubuntu and Debian (I was playing with this one) and pulling IceWeasel cleanly introduces a long chain of dependancies (new xulrunner, new libsqlite, et cetera) as well as maintaining the changes from Ubuntu's chain of depends to Debians... It's something I'm certainly not going to be able to maintain. :( It might make sense to simply hold off on doing too much there. Firefox 3 is still being developed and would be a moving target for any maintainer and probably not worth the effort to adapt Builder to. > kk > > -- > > > Karl Goetz, > Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor > http://www.kgoetz.id.au > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
