RFS: icecat
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "icecat". * Package name: icecat Version : 5.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Giuseppe Scrivano * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ * License : MPL/GPL/LPPL Section : web To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/icecat Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/icecat/icecat_5.0.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, -- Javier Sancho Fernández - http://www.jsancho.org/ Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation - http://www.fsf.org/ Contra el DRM - http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPH5TQGpGJuD7TBQ=qpd0vrpd1vffvbkday9kaca+tj1m33...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: icecat
Vincent Cheng wrote: > Please run lintian on your package (lintian -iI --pedantic *.changes) > and fix the numerous issues first. Many of them can easily be fixed > (e.g. "dh-make-template-in-source" - if you don't need those templates > provided by dh-make, just remove them), and you should aim for a > lintian-clean package before sending out your RFS request. While > you're at it, please consider providing a DEP-5 formatted > debian/copyright [1], and include a debian/watch file as well. Ok, I'm working on this now. > Also, I'm not sure if you've taken a look at bug #522196 [2] yet (I'm > guessing you haven't, otherwise you wouldn't have filed a new ITP for > Icecat); are you willing to maintain Icecat and to backport patches > and fix security issues for all versions of Icecat in Debian, > including future stable/oldstable releases? This can and will be a > large amount of work for a package like Icecat, although a lot of the > security-related work you'll have to do will have already been done by > the Iceweasel maintainers. I searched icecat in www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ and wnpp.debian.net/ and found nothing. Now, I know why :-) Yes, it's a lot of work, and I'll try to do it the best possible. Thanks for all. -- Javier Sancho Fernández - http://www.jsancho.org/ Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation - http://www.fsf.org/ Contra el DRM - http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caph5tqed9phwpa8-6ds4vo5ddrbtjkvte2e+eonlrvttw1s...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: icecat
Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > i) What's the point of it, how is it different from Iceweasel? The goal of the IceCat project is to provide a completely free version of the popular Mozilla source code. It is (so far the only) part of Gnuzilla, the umbrella project analogous to Mozilla. The base Mozilla code is free but it supports and suggests using non-free plugins and other modules. GNU IceCat is completely free, and suggests only free plugins to users. > ii) Why doesn't your package use pre-existing XULRunner in Debian? I've compiled Icecat with its own xulrunner version, but I can try to compile it for sid version. -- Javier Sancho Fernández - http://www.jsancho.org/ Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation - http://www.fsf.org/ Contra el DRM - http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPH5TQHgv6fdwuvV5oVAGk=jA2=u1qtn6iabfawy856sm3n...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: icecat
Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > Iceweasel is already free, isn't it? Yes, but provides a mix of free and non-free add-ons, because uses the Mozilla Firefox add-ons site. >> It is (so far the only) part of Gnuzilla, the umbrella project >> analogous to Mozilla. The base Mozilla code is free but it supports >> and suggests using non-free plugins and other modules. GNU IceCat is >> completely free, and suggests only free plugins to users. > > It's not about freedom, it's about limiting it for the users. Users > must be free to install non-free extensions and plug-ins if they want > to. There is no limitation. Users can install non-free plugins if they want. They can go to Firefox website and download them. The only difference is that Gnu IceCat don't provide these non-free plugins at its add-ons manager and then, users know that IceCat plugins are all free. -- Javier Sancho Fernández - http://www.jsancho.org/ Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation - http://www.fsf.org/ Contra el DRM - http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPH5TQG912Z4rFYcZ0p=rzzg2afiykvyphwnvkzgpep-j9a...@mail.gmail.com
