On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 08:25:10PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > > 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.
Stable is going to be updated to 78 in a few weeks. Mike
