Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-02 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > The reason I am so sensitive to this issue is that Debian included > nonfree software in their kernels for many years, despite it being a > widely known violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines. > Apparently it was deemed sufficient to make a "best effort" to comply

Re: libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF

2018-09-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Gábor Boskovits writes: > The libvirt service accepts a libvirt configuration, where you can specify > the libvirt package in use. I guess it would be easy to provide a similar > mechanism to give the qemu package. If qemu is an input of libvirt then > providing a custom libvirt having the cust

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Mark, > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> The TODO list for convenience: >>> >>> * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the >>> first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component. >>> * Remove remaining "Web Store" link

Re: GNU Mes 0.17 released [alpha]

2018-09-02 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Le mar. 21 août 2018 à 23:43, Arne Babenhauserheide a écrit : > > > Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > > > We are delighted to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.17, representing > > 64 commits over 6 weeks. > > > > Mes is now an official GNU package and we have bootstrapped gcc-4.7.4 > > for x86-linux w

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-02 Thread Marius Bakke
Amin Bandali writes: > Nils Gillmann writes: > >> Please read into the chromium thread or search locally through it - >> Marius already had some comments on ungoogled-chromium. Our chromium >> browser is not just chromium taken from upstream. Many (maintained) >> patches are taken and applied. >

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-02 Thread Marius Bakke
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Mark, > >> Mark H Weaver writes: >> >>> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >>> The TODO list for convenience: * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component.

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-02 Thread Mark H Weaver
Marius Bakke writes: > Amin Bandali writes: > >> As for the "lagging too far behind upstream" issue, that doesn't >> seem to be the case anymore: looking at releases on [3] and [4] >> it looks like ungoogled-chromium's latest shipped release matches >> the latest released chromium version. Gran

Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt

2018-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Coming soon: Guix will no longer provide its own crypto modules and will instead depend on Guile-Gcrypt: https://issues.guix.info/issue/32606 ‘guix pull’ will happily perform the transition. If you’re used to working on a Git checkout with “guix environment guix”, you’ll have to a

Re: https://issues.guix.info

2018-09-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Amin, >> The search box accepts issue numbers (for *any* bug on the GNU instance >> of Debbugs), but it also supports a few special queries, such as >> >> is:open / is:pending –> only open issues >> is:done / is:closed –> only completed issues >> title:foo -> issues containing “f

Re: https://issues.guix.info

2018-09-02 Thread Clément Lassieur
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Amin, > >>> The search box accepts issue numbers (for *any* bug on the GNU instance >>> of Debbugs), but it also supports a few special queries, such as >>> >>> is:open / is:pending –> only open issues >>> is:done / is:closed –> only completed issues >>> t

Re: https://issues.guix.info

2018-09-02 Thread Amin Bandali
Hi Ricardo, > I agree. I don’t know how to present these things nicely, but I’ll play > around with this. > > BTW: “submitter:who” should also work now. Like “is:…” it’s a rather > expensive query because the result set from Debbugs has to be filtered > locally. Cool, thanks! >>> - make the se

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Marius Bakke writes: > If this package gets into Guix, I think we > should add system tests (or similar) to catch regressions in the > unsolicited network traffic area. That’s an excellent idea, though it may be difficult to accomplish. I wouldn’t know how to do this reliably as the behaviour