On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 6:05 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > 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.
This patch appears to be very relevant: <https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches/Bug1888396.patch>. It provides the big- and little-endian dance. > > 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. > > > [1] > > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches Jeff
