Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] And Debian?

[Narcis Garcia]

[Note that Iceweasel wasn't a Firefox fork but Firefox itself]

A "package sponsor" needs to be found to help in IceCat packaging and
uploading to "unstable" repository. Firefox pachage maintainers could be
asked for this (?)
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firefox-esr

Here some information about the process:
https://mentors.debian.net/


El 24/04/17 a les 07:27, Dimitris Arvanitis ha escrit:
> Hallo!
> 
> I would love to see GNU IceCat as Debian package. Moreover, I have never
> understood why Debian, considering itself as THE GNU OS, has not assumed
> GNU IceCat as its default browser, but has first maintained its own
> parallel variant, Iceweasel, and now even switched to standard Firefox.
> If their resources were used to assume responsibility over IceCat, many
> good things could happen, and Rúben would be relieved to some degree,
> not having to take the whole burden of maintaining IceCat.
> 
> How could we convince Debian of taking care of IceCat and make it its
> standard browser?
> 
> Dimitris
> 
> Am Freitag, den 21.04.2017, 09:16 +0200 schrieb Narcis Garcia:
>> This Debian RFP is unattended since 2031, and I'm discussing about
>> Debian policy to install by default M.Firefox without any privacy care
>> for the user.
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/637348
>>
>>
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>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
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