Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Simon Josefsson writes ("Re: GNU IceCat?"):
>> What's a good way to do that efficiently? People have submitted bugs
>> against Iceweasel to do some of the things that IceCat does by default,
>> for example https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654336
>
> Well, a good start would be to turn bugs
> Severity: wishlist
> into bugs
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> ?
>
> I'm not surprised that the Iceweasel team don't have much time for
> anything which isn't strictly essential. A well-tested and maintained
> and maintainable patch would make it more feasible.Agreed -- part of what I'm trying to understand, though, is whether the Iceweasel team considers this a relevant direction to go into? The https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel suggests it strives to be close to what Firefox is, however that was written almost 10 years ago I'm not sure whether it is still true. >> The normal approach in that situation is to also package the fork of >> the projects to give users a choice, similar to what's done with >> MariaDB/MySQL. > > I don't think this is a good engineering solution for a situation > where what we're talking about is essentially different configuration, > rather than a different codebase. I don't think that is what we are talking about -- there appears to be more to IceCat than configuration. I agree that the differences between IceCat and Iceweasel are small, and it is quite far away of resembling the MariaDB/MySQL situation, however, at some point separate packaging will become relevant. We are obviously not there yet. > If you do find that the Iceweasel maintainers are not interested > enough in your goals, then a better engineering solution might be an > overlay package which overrides some of the configuration defaults. > > (If there is currently no good mechanism for such an overlay package, > that is a generically useful thing which I would expect both Debian's > Iceweasel people and indeed upstream Mozilla to welcome.) I don't see how such a mechanism would work, but if it was possible that would be nice. /Simon
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