Nils Gillmann transcribed 1.3K bytes: > 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.
Addition: Aurora 52.7.2 is the last version I have packaged without the mandatory rust. > > -- > > Mike Gerwitz > > Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer > > GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 > > https://mikegerwitz.com > > >
