Fw: Succesfully compiled IceCat using devuan

[Jens Korte]

I forgot to mail to the list.

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Datum: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:35:01 +0100
Von: Jens Korte <address@hidden>
An: Amin Bandali <address@hidden>
Betreff: Re: Succesfully compiled IceCat using devuan


Hi

The first thing is: I prefer the git interfaces from gitlab and github.

## The interface used on savannah (cgit?) isn't clear to me:
* Why have all tags a tar.gz file but the 68.4.1-gnu1 has no tag?
* Where do I find the git clone url? OK, I found it on
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnuzilla.git&view=view+git+repository
  git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnuzilla.git
* Why do I have to enter gnuzilla.git at
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/ and not just gnuzilla or
  gnuzilla.* or gnuzilla*? Why aren't there hints for searching?


## About content
* Why is the head and master at 60.7.0?
* Why is there a test branch with 38.3.0

Neither the interface is comfortable to, nor the content seems to be
well maintained. Sorry for the cruel words, I mean it in a friendly way.

Greets

Jens


Am Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:49:05 -0500
schrieb Amin Bandali <address@hidden>:

> Hi,
> 
> Jens Korte <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I compiled IceCat 68.4.1esr (64bit) using Devuan. This is a short
> > summary what I did:
> >
> > * cloned with git 
> [...]
> 
> Isn’t Devuan a fork of Debian?  I’d imagine using the 68 branch of the
> official upstream gnuzilla.git repo [0] would be easiest, since it was
> primarily developed on Trisquel, an Ubuntu derivative, itself a Debian
> derivative.  I’m curious to hear why instead go through the hassle of
> porting Antonio’s version for Fedora for use on Devuan?  To be fair, I
> haven’t had a chance to have a close look at Antonio’s repo, so I’m
> not sure how much it’s diverged from the upstream gnuzilla repo.
> 
> [0]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/log/?h=68