Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes: > Hi Nils, > > Nils Gillmann <n...@n0.is> writes: > > > Björn Höfling transcribed 1.2K bytes: > > > >> Are there any more recent news on the Thunderbird side? Does anyone have > >> more-or-less ready snippets available? > > > > I can not post the link to straight-out of the box Thunderbird here > > (current repository is against the policy in Guix), but if you really > > want to work on it I can send you the link offlist (just contact me at > > gillm...@infotropique.org). > > Did someone tell you that you shouldn't post a preliminary > Thunderbird/Icedove package definition to this mailing list?
No. It just exists in a branch in an (experimental, fluid) repository where other nonfree software (partially as a base for other builds to be upstreamed) is located in, which is why I mentioned "policy reasons". If that's an exception I could link to the cgit, I'll do it of course. If the repo is not okay, I can send a mbox formated patch. > If so, can you show me the email? > > It's true that we shouldn't post package definitions for nonfree > software on the Guix mailing lists. However, Thunderbird/Icedove has > only a couple of known freedom issues which have apparently already been > addressed in Parabola GNU/Linux: > > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#Thunderbird > > Given that a GNU FSDG compliant version of Thunderbird/Icedove already > exists, and that we could surely apply the same fixes to our package, I > see no problem with you posting your preliminary package definition. > Please do so. It would enable other interested developers to continue > your work. > > Regards, > Mark
