On 3 October 2017 at 23:55, Robie Basak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 12:27:36AM +0300, Nrbrtx wrote: >> Thanks to JonathonF - he built latest Firefox ESR 52.4.0. Interested users >> may download it from PPA >> https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Ejonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr> . >> >> But this is not user-friendly solution. > > Given that others are already doing the work in their PPAs, I wonder if > any of them would be able to get together and volunteer to maintain > firefox-esr in Ubuntu's official archive, working alongside the existing > maintenance of non-ESR Firefox done by the desktop team? > > As has already been mentioned by others this might involve some > additional work to make the two play well in the archive together. > > Is there anyone who is prepared to drive this? Presumably there's no > point in considering how (and if) it might work technically unless we > have volunteers though.
Another option would be to try and package firefox-esr as a snap. This would give access to multiple Ubuntu releases with a single build, and give the ability to push out updates independent of the Ubuntu release process. The package would also show up automatically in gnome-software without the need for the user to add a PPA. You'd have access to the same Launchpad build infrastructure as you'd have for a PPA build or one in the main Ubuntu archive, so once things are set up it should be relatively easy to get builds for multiple architectures pushed out. James. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
