Re: Packaging a free Firefox

[Mike Gerwitz]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 13:34:37 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I wonder why IceCat is based on an ESR, and what it would take to have
> it follow Firefox releases more closely.  IWBN if IceCat could be pretty
> much like Linux-libre, i.e., a set of scripts that semi-automatically
> adjusts the Firefox source (I’m not sure if that is the case currently.)

Its maintainer was struggling to keep up with any releases at all, which
is why Mark Weaver stepped up backporting security patches for
Guix.  I'm not sure how much effort is involved with running the script
and issuing a new release.

> At any rate, people interested in this should probably team up with the
> IceCat people (person?) to see how we can together move in the right
> direction.

Please do contact address@hidden if anyone is interested!

Rubén Rodríguez is IceCat's maintainer and is an employee at the FSF.  I
proposed to both rms and John Sullivan at different points that maybe
IceCat maintenance can be made part of Rubén's responsibilities at the
FSF.  The FSF recently announced a paid contact position for LibreJS, so
maybe at some point IceCat can see some attention too.

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