Bug#522196: #522196 - RFP: gnu icecat - the GNU version of Mozilla Firefox
Hello, Brett Parker writes: > I thought they all now dynamically linked against xulrunner so that security > support was much simpler than before, so it's really just a frontend more than > a clone of firefox, no? Yes, I think Iceweasel and Icecat can share xulrunner without problems. After the discussion with Mike I think what is really important is the possibility to use only free plugins and addons, no matter if Icecat or Iceweasel. Regards, Giuseppe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#522196: #522196 - RFP: gnu icecat - the GNU version of Mozilla Firefox
On 03 Apr 15:42, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Raphael Geissert [2009-04-02 19:45]: > > [Security team BCC'ed] > > > > Hi, > > > > Do we really need another mozilla browser around? > > Last time I heard the iceweasel maintainers were looking for other people > > to > > help them. > > > > I don't think yet another clone of firefox is going to do any good in any > > sense (including the security POV). > > As providing security support for the ice* suite is already > PITA and I see no reason why we should include this given > that we have ice* I strongly oppose to include this to > Debian. I thought they all now dynamically linked against xulrunner so that security support was much simpler than before, so it's really just a frontend more than a clone of firefox, no? Cheers, -- Brett Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#522196: #522196 - RFP: gnu icecat - the GNU version of Mozilla Firefox
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 03:42:22PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Raphael Geissert [2009-04-02 19:45]: > > [Security team BCC'ed] > > > > Hi, > > > > Do we really need another mozilla browser around? > > Last time I heard the iceweasel maintainers were looking for other people > > to > > help them. > > > > I don't think yet another clone of firefox is going to do any good in any > > sense (including the security POV). > > As providing security support for the ice* suite is already > PITA and I see no reason why we should include this given > that we have ice* I strongly oppose to include this to > Debian. Actually, after talking to Giuseppe Scrivano (submitter of the RFP, and icecat "upstream" maintainer), it appears icecat can be summarized (implementation-wide) as a few preferences changes and an extension over firefox/iceweasel, plus, obviously, branding. If someone is interested in icecat in Debian, one can surely come up with a nice small package on top of iceweasel (modulo branding, but it would be nice to fix that in firefox upstream so that branding for iceweasel itself would be easier, see the deb/iceweasel-rename branch of the iceweasel git repo). See #522331, too, for some ideas that could(should) go into iceweasel. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#522196: #522196 - RFP: gnu icecat - the GNU version of Mozilla Firefox
Hi, * Raphael Geissert [2009-04-02 19:45]: > [Security team BCC'ed] > > Hi, > > Do we really need another mozilla browser around? > Last time I heard the iceweasel maintainers were looking for other people to > help them. > > I don't think yet another clone of firefox is going to do any good in any > sense (including the security POV). As providing security support for the ice* suite is already PITA and I see no reason why we should include this given that we have ice* I strongly oppose to include this to Debian. Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - n...@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. pgpuUbcMZg7oj.pgp Description: PGP signature
