[Dev] Icedove-52.1 going up to [libre-testing] soon - Was: Orphan Libre package [iceweasel-l10n-es-ar] marked out-of-date

Wed May 10 12:09:21 GMT 2017

the build is done and looks good at first glance. any volunteers for
some initial tests?

any opinions on the epoch bump? I am particularily unsure about this.

-A

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 09:23:14AM +0200, Andreas Grapentin wrote:
> 
> Following the discussion below, I built the latest thunderbird release
> (52.1.0) and rebranded it to icedove, and ported many freedom issue
> patches from iceweasel over.
> 
> The build is running now for i686 and x86_64 and I will push the
> packages later, first to [libre-testing] - would anybody be inclined to
> test them? I'm not an icedove user myself, and might miss some subtle
> flaws, hence I don't want to push to [libre] immediately.
> 
> Would it be appropriate to bump the epoch of icedove to 2 with this
> change?
> 
> -A
> 
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:39:53PM -0500, eliotime3000 wrote:
> > Of course. Unfortunately, the Debian repo sometimes could not update the SID
> > branch due to the safety patches that requires.
> > 
> > Anyway, the Arch editions of Firefox are easy to keep it updated, with the
> > patches that are being used for Iceweasel (I've checked in the
> > "about:buildconfig" in both versions of Firefox {Debian and Arch}, and
> > actually, there's no a featured difference between both versions in
> > questions of patches and flags).
> > 
> > PS: If could be possible, please restore the "about:iceweasel" easter egg.
> > It represents the reason of existence of Iceweasel.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Eliot.
> > 
> > El 08/05/17 a las 16:13, Andreas Grapentin escribió:
> > > I would like to continue using the name iceweasel and the iceweasel
> > > rebranding. I know we can't use the name 'firefox' and I am probably not
> > > able to come up with an original name anyway (EarthBadger anyone?).
> > > 
> > > That being said, since debian will drop the name, we will need to pick
> > > it up and maintain the rebranding patches anyway, which is actually what
> > > I have done for 53.0.
> > > 
> > > The change I am proposing is not away from iceweasel to something else,
> > > but away from debian iceweasel to parabola iceweasel, using the latest
> > > sources from upstream, and not the debian repos.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The same does probably apply to iceape and icedove. In fact, if this
> > > proposal is approved, I will start to work on upgrading icedove, since
> > > the version gap there is the greatest (45.8 => 52.1)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 01:37:44PM -0500, Isaac David wrote:
> > > > Le lun. 8 mai 2017 à 3:47, Andreas Grapentin a écrit :
> > > > > why are we tracking debian firefox instead of the
> > > > > original firefox? Now that debian has discontinued iceweasel and we need
> > > > > to maintain the branding patches ourselves anyway, what is barring us
> > > > > from following the original firefox releases, and remove one level of
> > > > > indirection?
> > > > don't quote me on this, but I think Emulatorman consciously stuck to
> > > > iceweasel after Debian returned to vanilla firefox in order to avoid
> > > > coming up with our own rebranding. keep in mind that Mozilla never
> > > > amended their policy to allow _all_ redistributors to bear the firefox
> > > > trademark; the deal was between Mozilla and Debian alone. they could
> > > > still come after us for taking default settings and the addons page
> > > > apart, since our version of firefox is arguably less standard than
> > > > either Debian's or Arch's.
> > > > 
> > > > that said, you might be right that just using
> > > > `--disable-official-branding` would be easier if Debian has dropped
> > > > iceweasel completely now.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Isaac David
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> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
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