> On 4 Oct 2017, at 08:15, James Henstridge <james.henstri...@canonical.com> > wrote: > > On 3 October 2017 at 23:55, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@ubuntu.com> 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.
+1 on this, a snap seems the best approach. > James. > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
