Mike Gerwitz transcribed 1.8K bytes: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07 +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote: > > Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a > > package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but > > it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes > > freezes my computer). > > This is a big problem. Thanks for keeping up with the status. > > I'll get into contact with the necessary people on behalf of GNU to > figure out the current status of IceCat. > > But as was stated in another thread, once we _do_ have an updated IceCat > source distribution, we need it packaged for Guix, and that is quite the > undertaking. Has anyone pursued packaging modern versions of vanilla FF > in recent months?
Yes, I have. The outcome was not so much progress because Firefox starting at a certain version does no longer allow disabling the build of the rust crates. You then need a way to deal with the "breakage" in the directory 'thirdparty/rust/' and its subdirectories. Progress could be achieved with a phase which either records our changes to the checksum related files or reverts our changes. > -- > Mike Gerwitz > Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer > GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 > https://mikegerwitz.com
