reopen 322521
severity 322521 wishlist
retitle 322521 Please provide firefox-dev and xulrunner packages
thanks
Hi,
On jeu, aoû 11, 2005, Hidetaka Iwai wrote:
> I maintain the debian package of kazehakase(gecko based web browser)
> and kazehakase can use lib libgtkembedmoz.so of mozilla-firefox since
> version 0.2.6.
(I maintain the Galeon packages and co-maintain the Yelp, Epiphany and
mozilla-bonobo packages.)
> I plan to use the firefox's gecko as the rendering engine of
> kazehakase, so could you please provide libgtkembedmoz.so with
> mozilla-firefox package, and a development package such as
> mozilla-firefox-dev?
So do I. I am reopening this bug because I think it is of actuality
again. Ubuntu is building Galeon against Firefox since months. They
just decided they will build most things against Firefox:
<http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2005-November/000018.html>
I don't want to start the "Ubuntu can do it, why can't Debian do it"
kind of discussion, but I'm sensible to:
- most active upstream projects such as Epiphany, Galeon, Yelp being
ready to switch to Firefox
- the availability of two upstream products serving the same purpose
(Mozilla and Firefox), with one being abandonned and one actively
developped
- the fact that this means we're maintaining two products in Debian (eg
wasting time)
- third party apps are forced to use the older product, Mozilla
- users are forced to install mozilla-browser, but really want to run
firefox
Now Ubuntu certainly has control on their copy of the mozilla source
package, and this means there would have been two reasons for them
*not* to do such a switch:
- they could have tried to not diverge two much from Debian
- they could have fixed the mozilla source package
... but Ubuntu choosed to switch to Firefox.
I would be interested in knowing what's hold-up-ing the firefox
development packages, or xulrunner.
Thanks,
--
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
