On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 7:31 am, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 03:22:40PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:10:45 +0200 Johannes Rohr <jor...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> It would be great to have firefox (or the next firefox-esr) in
> buster-backports, as it has important new functionality relevant
for
> privacy and data protection, such as the multi account containers
> function. However, this bug prevents firefox from entering
testing,
> which in my understanding implies, that it cannot make it into
backports
> as well. Is there some way of getting an up-to-date firefox
version into
> stable? For now I work with the binary directly downloaded from
> mozilla.org, but this is a kludge.
>
We have created https://fasttrack.debian.net for packages like this
which cannot go with stable releases and hence blocked from entering
testing and backports as well.
Mike,
Would you like to maintain firefox in buster-fasttrack?
I'm part of the team that maintain this unofficial service and
maintains
gitlab there. If you are okay with the idea, but does not want to
do the
extra work, I'd be happy to maintain it in fasttrack.
The package in unstable can be built for stable as long as its version
contains a ~bpo thing. That could be changed to also support fto. But
the bigger problem is that it requires new versions of rustc, cargo
and
cbindgen, which in turn requires a new version of llvm. And it
requires
new versions of these quite regularly.
So, no, I'm not really interested in maintaining that.
Thanks for the reply. I will ask around if more people are willing to
take on the challenge and will try it if there is an interest. Things
like webRTC suport (jitsi video conferencing) needs recent versions of
firefox to work well and which is my main interest to take on this.
Mike
