well, I'm willing to commit, but I really don't know anything about the hows. ....
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>wrote: > It's not politics. For security reasons, packages in the archive aren't > allowed to autoinstall from PPAs. The KDE Firefox patches were dropped > from > the Ubuntu archive Firefox due to the amount of work it took to keep them > up > to date and integrated with new Firefox releases. If someone from the > community were willing to commit to do that work, I think it would be worth > discussing with the Mozilla team about getting them back in. > > Scott K > > On Saturday, November 03, 2012 10:48:32 AM Dale Trombley wrote: > > Is it possible to include the ppa as part of the firefox-installer that > > comes on the iso? would it be possible for the firefox-installer to > > install this firefox-kde and have firefox be a separate package? Could > > firefox-kde be put on the standard kubuntu servers since it would be a > > different package than firefox and skip the whole ppa part to begin with? > > This would be ideal from a user point of view, and would simplify things > > for the end-user greatly. I don't know if any of this is possible from a > > canonical point of view or a kubuntu point of view and the politics > > therein, but now that we are truely a community version couldn't we just > do > > it anyway? > > > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Rohan Garg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Yep > > > > > > www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Scott Kitterman > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Rohan Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >Alrighty, here's a solution that I propose : > > >> > > > >> >Add a firefox-kde meta package that declares a explicit dependency on > > >> >the > > >> >firefox from the PPA ( as well as kmozillahelper ). This is the > > >> >package targeted towards the general users who want Firefox and KDE > > >> >integration. > > >> > > > >> >Other users who want Firefox with KDE integration but still want to > get > > >> >security updates can install the specific firefox version from the > ppa > > >> >by > > >> >supplying the version over the apt command line or adding the PPA and > > >> >upgrading. > > >> > > > >> >Thoughts? > > >> > > > >> >Best > > >> >Rohan Garg > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Jussi Kekkonen <[email protected]> > > >> > > > >> >wrote: > > >> >> Hi, > > >> >> > > >> >> Without knowing the details more in depth, is there any particular > > >> >> reason why the whole Firefox is bundled with the support? Any way > it > > >> >> could be a just support provided to "ubuntu-stock" Firefox as > > >> > > > >> >separate > > >> > > > >> >> package? > > >> >> > > >> >> On 20 September 2012 21:36, Rohan Garg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> >> > Harald also pointed out that this would pose a security risk as > we > > >> > > > >> >do > > >> > > > >> >> > not have releases the same day as ubuntu. > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Rohan Garg > > >> > > > >> ><[email protected]> > > >> > > > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> >> As suggested on IRC a couple of minutes, would it be viable to > > >> >> >> document pinning the package using Muon? Jonathan says that this > > >> > > > >> >can > > >> > > > >> >> >> be done via muon ( downgrade the package and then pin it to the > > >> >> >> current version ). > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> Best > > >> >> >> Rohan Garg > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> >>> +1 > > >> >> >>> > > >> >> >>> Ovidiu - Florin Bogdan > > >> >> >>> mob: +40 743-135.018 _ > > >> >> >>> I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads > > >> > > > >> >without a > > >> > > > >> >> >>> messy bloodbath. > > >> >> >>> http://www.google.com/profiles/ovidiu.b13 > > >> >> >>> > > >> >> >>> > > >> >> >>> > > >> >> >>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Steve Riley < > [email protected]> > > >> >> > > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> >>>> On 2012-09-19 22:34:11 Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan > > >> > > > >> ><[email protected]> > > >> > > > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> >>>> > Does this package contain any elements that are specific to > > >> > > > >> >KDE? > > >> > > > >> >> >>>> It's Firefox compiled with KDE support. More info here: > > >> >> >>>> > > >> >> >>>> https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+archive/firefox-kde > > >> >> >>>> > > >> >> >>>> ...Steve > > >> >> >>>> > > >> >> >>>> > > >> >> >>>> -- > > >> >> >>>> kubuntu-devel mailing list > > >> >> >>>> [email protected] > > >> >> >>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > >> >> >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > >> >> >>> > > >> >> >>> -- > > >> >> >>> kubuntu-devel mailing list > > >> >> >>> [email protected] > > >> >> >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > >> >> >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > >> >> > > > >> >> > -- > > >> >> > kubuntu-devel mailing list > > >> >> > [email protected] > > >> >> > > >> >> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > >> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> -- > > >> >> Jussi Kekkonen, Tm_T > > >> >> > > >> >> Ubuntu/KDE developer [email protected] > > >> >> > > >> >> -- > > >> >> kubuntu-devel mailing list > > >> >> [email protected] > > >> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > >> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > >> > > > >> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >> > > > >> >-- > > >> >kubuntu-devel mailing list > > >> >[email protected] > > >> >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > >> >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > >> > > >> I missed the start of this thread. You're just talking about PPA > > >> packages, right? > > >> > > >> Scott K > > >> > > >> -- > > >> kubuntu-devel mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > > > > > -- > > > kubuntu-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > -- *Dale Trombley Admin, Historic Threads historicthreads.com [email protected] Admin, My Summerfield Farm mysummerfieldfarm.com [email protected] Admin, Trombley Construction trombleyconstruction.com [email protected] *
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