Package: firefox-esr Version: 78.6.1esr-1~deb10u1 Severity: normal Dear maintainer.
My firefox-esr is a little bit confused the correct location of "policies.json". Mozilla's page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/managing-policies-linux-desktops says: 1. Create a file called policies.json with your policies. 2. Place this file in firefox/distribution where "firefox" is the installation directory for Firefox. (This will vary per distribution). In the Debian, place is definetely under /etc. Firefox-esr's debian package creates /etc/firefox-esr : pi@raspberrypi:~ $ dpkg -L firefox-esr |grep etc /etc /etc/firefox-esr /etc/firefox-esr/firefox-esr.js but try to read policies.json from /etc/firefox: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ grep "/etc/fi" firefox.strace faccessat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/firefox/policies/policies.json", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) and this is the problem, because it is not documented or it is not the directory created by debian installer. And anyway, strace should not be a end user tool to find out location of fundamendal configuration files. My suggestion is: 1. Place this file to /etc/firefox-esr/polcies 2. Document it 3. (Optionally) Put into this policies.json {"policies":{"DisableAppUpdate":true}} because an end-user-program should not to try update itself. It is matter of a package manager. Thanks in advance -- Package-specific info: -- Addons package information -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 5.10.5-v8+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP Locale: LANG=en_DK, LC_CTYPE=en_DK (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages firefox-esr depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.6.1 ii fontconfig 2.13.1-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4+rpt1 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4+rpt1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-0+deb10u1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-4 ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4 ii libffi6 3.2.1-9 ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2 ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3+deb10u2 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1+rpt2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1 ii libxcb-shm0 1.13.1-2 ii libxcb1 1.13.1-2 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-3+b3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii procps 2:3.3.15-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 Versions of packages firefox-esr recommends: ii libavcodec58 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1+rpt1 Versions of packages firefox-esr suggests: pn fonts-lmodern <none> pn fonts-stix | otf-stix <none> ii libcanberra0 0.30-7 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3+deb10u1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3+rpt1 ii pulseaudio 12.2-4+deb10u1+rpi3 -- no debconf information
