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From: | The Canadian Bacon |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] icecat maintenance |
Date: | Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:15:09 -0500 |
I perform Debian and Ubuntu installations every week, and I add Icecat
from Trisquel repositories. I'm not watching package definitions.
El 26/12/17 a les 15:13, Gammel Holte ha escrit:
> I've somehow not received Mark's email yet.
>
> I'm using Mark's IceCat package on GuixSD. You can find the reproducible
> package definition here:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/ packages/gnuzilla.scm?id=v0. 14.0-437-gd633f2f62#n402
>
> You can install Guix in any computer to run IceCat, or even switch to
> the GuixSD distro.
>
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Antonio Trande <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> > Gammel Holte <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark.
>
> On 26/12/2017 03:15, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> writes:
> >--
> >> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Antonio Trande <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >> Will Icecat be upgraded still?
> >>
> >> I was wondering the same thing. As much as I dislike the latest moves
> >> by Mozilla [1] and as much as I like GNU and IceCat, I'm a bit worried
> >> by the lack of maintenance of the project.
> >>
> >> IceCat is quite lagging behind Firefox ESR now. HEAD is 52.3.0,
> >> whereas Firefox ESR is already at 52.5.2.
> >
> > I agree that this is a very serious problem. GNU IceCat is my primary
> > web browser, and I worry a *lot* about computer security.
> >
> > As defacto maintainer of the IceCat package in GNU Guix, I have a
> > solution for myself and for other GNU Guix users. Whenever Mozilla
> > issues a security advisory, I search for the associated fixes in the
> > upstream mozilla-esr52 source repository, and apply them to our
> packages
> > in GNU Guix. At the time of this writing, we include 69 patches
> > cherry-picked from upstream Firefox ESR, including all fixes from
> 52.5.2
> > that I deemed to be possibly relevant to security.
> >
>
> Where do you find all release related patches?
>
> --
> ---
> Antonio Trande
> Fedora Project
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