Hello João, On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 10:36 +0100, João wrote: > SeaLion is definitely worth considering, but it is not part of the > distribution, > and it would be desirable if Debian PPC (we are talking about big endian PPC, > and I'm using PPC64 myself) would have a modern featurefull browser available. > > Of course everyone (I should say most people ;)) would want Firefox, but from > the threads you quote below I was under the impressions that there was little > hope to get it working, but from Adrian's email on this thread I get the > impression that it is still worth pursuing?
Oracle ships a current version of Firefox on Solaris SPARC which is a big-endian target and they have published all of their patches in their Github repository for the Solaris userland [1]. Thus, someone that is interested in Firefox on big-endian PowerPC should sit down and take the time to try building a Debian Firefox package with the Oracle patches applied. > Would packaging SeaLion in Debian be a worthwhile alternative goal? A web browser is a huge potential security thread so packaging and maintaining it requires a lot of patience and diligence. For that very reason, the Debian FTP team will most likely reject a SeaLion package if it's submitted unless there is a dedicated maintainer behind it. Adrian > [1] > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
