Kevin Kofler wrote on 02.10.2010 00:56:
Sven Lankes wrote:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577653 Looking at how rigorous new packages with bundled libs are fought we should really stop shipping firefox and start shipping Iceweasel.
+1
I really don't see why the Firefox stack keeps getting a free ride around our packaging guidelines. Firefox is a package like any others, it MUST respect our packaging guidelines, and that means NO bundled libraries, PERIOD. If that's not possible while still calling it Firefox, it MUST be renamed.
Maybe I'm missed something, but there is a (relative) simple question that always pops up in my head when I read things like this. I never bothered to ask it in public, but I'll do now:
* Why haven't those that want iceweasel and icedove in Fedora not simply invested some time and got them integrated into the repository?(¹)
It wouldn't be the first (albeit it likely would be the biggest) fork where we also still ship the original (dd{,_}rescue comes to my mind), hence I'd assume the packaging guidelines do not forbid something like that. Or do they?
CU knurd
P.S.: No, I'm not trying to shoot down the discussion, as it looks like it's in its last stages already anyway
(¹) or was I simply to blind to find the review requests in bugzilla