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Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium
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Clément Lassieur |
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Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium |
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Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:14:37 +0200 |
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Hi Mike,
Mike Gerwitz <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07 +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote:
>> Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a
>> package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but
>> it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes
>> freezes my computer).
>
> This is a big problem. Thanks for keeping up with the status.
>
> I'll get into contact with the necessary people on behalf of GNU to
> figure out the current status of IceCat.
Thank you!
> But as was stated in another thread, once we _do_ have an updated IceCat
> source distribution, we need it packaged for Guix, and that is quite the
> undertaking. Has anyone pursued packaging modern versions of vanilla FF
> in recent months?
The problem is a technical problem. We would have with Icecat 60 the
same packaging difficulties we have with Firefox 60. Whether we choose
Icecat or Firefox is unrelated.
Clément
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- Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/08/30
- Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium, Nils Gillmann, 2018/08/30
- Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium, Clément Lassieur, 2018/08/30
- Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/08/30
- Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium, Nils Gillmann, 2018/08/30
- Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium, Clément Lassieur, 2018/08/30
- Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium, Mike Gerwitz, 2018/08/30
Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium, Nils Gillmann, 2018/08/30