summary: A package for Waterfox (and some follow-ons, notably for KDE) are already being built unofficially and used successfully. What is the process to get this into the official Debian packages?
details: [endnotes follow .sig] W. Martin Borgert Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:23:46 +0100[1] > * Package name : waterfox > Version : 56.0.1 > Upstream Author : Alex Kontos > * URL : https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ > * License : MPL 2.0 > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : graphical web browser based on Firefox A Debian repo for Waterfox and related packages[2] (for, e.g., localization, KDE) is already being built unofficially: see its Git repo and instructions for details[3]. I have installed (version=56.0.1) and updated (to version=56.0.2) from that successfully. It is already included in Sparky testing[4]. What is the procedure for getting this into the official Debian package repositories? FWIW, I scanned (tl;dr) the current Debian Policy Manual[5] but did not notice anything about contribution procedure. > it would be nice to have this in Debian to keep useful packages like > xul-ext-scrapbook alive ... and Tab Mix Plus[6] and other {very useful, widely used} add-ons that have not yet been rewritten as WebExtensions for Firefox Quantum. TIA, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885405 [2]: https://dl.bintray.com/hawkeye116477/waterfox-deb [3]: https://github.com/hawkeye116477/waterfox-deb [4]: https://sparkylinux.org/repo/ [5]: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Mix_Plus
