Not much to add, +1 from me.

I'd love to have Icecat in Debian repos, since I think it's totally on par with Debian and Free Software philosophy. I can use GUIX manager to have Icecat, but it'd be nice to have an easier way to use Icecat on Debian.


cheers,

kujaw


On Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:05:59 +0100 chippy <chi...@classictetris.net> wrote:

> Hi all, I'm currently packaging Gnu Icecat for all major OSs (win,
> mac,GNU/Linux). I do offer it for download on codeberg and on a
> website. I recently packaged and got it approved (with surprise) by
> Microsoft for winget (sort of windows CLI package manager).
> Since I'm a Debian user and big fan of GNU/FSF, I wouldn't mind
> maintaining this package for Debian.
> I usually deliver Tier 1 (Deb, Intel Mac, win64) builds within hours
> from Firefox. On the next day the more exotic tier2 with aarch64_WIN
> and Apple silicon (requiring crosscompiling).
>
> I'm not sure how to proceed, should I wait for this ITP to expire?
>
>
> Thanks!
> Chip
>
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:34:15 +0200 Alex Colomar
> <alx.manpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ping.
> >
> > And my +1.
> >
> > I'd say that Debian should have more priority for GNU Icecat than
> > Firefox.  If there's enough manpower and interest to support both,
> let
> > it be.  It one needs to be chosen, please kill Firefox already.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alex
> >
> > --
> > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
>
>

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