Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] icecat maintenance

[The Canadian Bacon]

Given the idea mark has done for the guix, may borrow that idea myself for the windows package at least until the next major esr release. In which I may as well create a landing page for the windows binary on my homepage for the wiki to point to, probably by new years day when I have more free time.

On Dec 26, 2017 2:00 PM, "Narcis Garcia" <address@hidden> wrote:

I perform Debian and Ubuntu installations every week, and I add Icecat
from Trisquel repositories. I'm not watching package definitions.


El 26/12/17 a les 15:13, Gammel Holte ha escrit:

> I've somehow not received Mark's email yet.
>
> I'm using Mark's IceCat package on GuixSD. You can find the reproducible
> package definition here:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm?id=v0.14.0-437-gd633f2f62#n402
>
> You can install Guix in any computer to run IceCat, or even switch to
> the GuixSD distro.
>
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Antonio Trande <address@hidden

> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Mark.
>
>     On 26/12/2017 03:15, Mark H Weaver wrote:

>     > Gammel Holte <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> writes:

>     >
>     >> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Antonio Trande <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>     >>  Will Icecat be upgraded still?
>     >>
>     >> I was wondering the same thing. As much as I dislike the latest moves
>     >> by Mozilla [1] and as much as I like GNU and IceCat, I'm a bit worried
>     >> by the lack of maintenance of the project.
>     >>
>     >> IceCat is quite lagging behind Firefox ESR now. HEAD is 52.3.0,
>     >> whereas Firefox ESR is already at 52.5.2.
>     >
>     > I agree that this is a very serious problem.  GNU IceCat is my primary
>     > web browser, and I worry a *lot* about computer security.
>     >
>     > As defacto maintainer of the IceCat package in GNU Guix, I have a
>     > solution for myself and for other GNU Guix users.  Whenever Mozilla
>     > issues a security advisory, I search for the associated fixes in the
>     > upstream mozilla-esr52 source repository, and apply them to our
>     packages
>     > in GNU Guix.  At the time of this writing, we include 69 patches
>     > cherry-picked from upstream Firefox ESR, including all fixes from
>     52.5.2
>     > that I deemed to be possibly relevant to security.
>     >
>
>     Where do you find all release related patches?
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