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

[Nils Gillmann]

Ludovic Courtès transcribed 990 bytes:
> Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > Ludovic Courtès transcribed 331 bytes:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> skribis:
> >> 
> >> > The problem is a technical problem.  We would have with Icecat 60 the
> >> > same packaging difficulties we have with Firefox 60.  Whether we choose
> >> > Icecat or Firefox is unrelated.
> >> 
> >> That means pulling a number of Rust dependencies, is that right?
> >
> > No, they are bundled.
> 
> OK.  Ideally we’d unbundle them but the point is moot since we probably
> don’t have package for these currently.  IOW, I think we could keep
> those bundled dependencies initially, and then incrementally unbundle
> them as we add more Rust packages to our package collection.
> 
> > Now rust itself is a problem on our side, so I haven't even attempted
> > to unbundle them.
> 
> Our Rust package is supposed to work fine thanks to the work of Nikolai,
> Danny, and others, so I’m (naively?) confident.  :-)

Rust alone yes, but rust crates beyond single package dependencies:
no.  At least I haven't seen a confirmation that all of the defects of
the build-system have been adressed in the last months (year).

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>