On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 02:26:26AM +0300, Mert Dirik wrote: > Package: firefox-esr > Version: 52.2.0esr-1~deb8u1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > Version 52 of firefox-esr jessie is with gtk+-3.0. I would be glad if you > reconsider building it with gtk+-2.0. > > Here is my reasoning: > > - Firefox 52 still can be built with gtk+-2.0 > - It is the Firefox version to be used until mid 2018. > - Jessie is already late in its lifecycle (soon to be oldstable). It will be > even older in mid 2018. > - All the previous Iceweasel and Firefox versions that has been in jessie > were > built with gtk+-2.0 > - There is no benefit changing the gtk version this late since Stretch > release > is imminent and users who can benefit from using Firefox with gtk+-3.0 can > upgrade to Stretch > - I use an extension that doesn't work with gtk 3.0 and it is not likely to > be > ported. I would like to use it as long as I can. There may be dozens of users > like me in a similar situation :) > > Even though my main motivation is for selfish reasons I think building the new > Firefox with old gtk is more appropriate for (old)stable distribution since it > is still a suppported build option and it is a more conservative jump from > Firefox 45. > > Please consider building with gtk+-2.0.
This makes sense, but firefox-esr hasn't been tested against gtk+-2.0 ever, neither on Debian nor on Mozilla end. AFAIK RedHat do such builds, but I don't know if they carry extra patches. What does the security team think here? We had this discussion in the past, but IIRC back then it wasn't a given that building against gtk+-2.0 might be a possibility. Mike
