Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread Ed Robbins
On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, 17:23 Leo Historias, wrote: > What? You didn't finish due to lack of "manpower"? > As far as I understand Adrian does almost all of the debian powerpc maintenance (with some help here and there, not from me I'm afraid). Without him there would be no ppc or ppc64 debian: As fa

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Leo Historias wrote: They should update firefox to the latest one considering it is outdated and 52esr is out of support. 115ESR or 128esr is more updated than 52esr. because Mozilla makes things unbuildable and unportable nowadays. Even if you could get it to run it would be full of en

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Leo Historias wrote: What? You didn't finish due to lack of "manpower"? And we need cross transpile? Okay, i could do it for you if only i had the skills necessary and I'm not too young (but being too young isn't neccesary for the reason not to do it,right? I'm 17,almost turning 18 next ye

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread Leo Historias
What? You didn't finish due to lack of "manpower"? And we need cross transpile? Okay, i could do it for you if only i had the skills necessary and I'm not too young (but being too young isn't neccesary for the reason not to do it,right? I'm 17,almost turning 18 next year!) Any alternatives in case

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 13:04 -0300, Leo Historias wrote: > Thanks for your explanation,but  why Node.JS? Because Firefox upstream decided they want to transpile Javascript files during the build process instead of the development process. > Why don't we have it on ppc32? Because it's not been ful

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread Leo Historias
Thanks for your explanation,but why Node.JS? Why don't we have it on ppc32? One alternative is to build either Firefox using nodejsc or use a version of Firefox that requires rust but not Node.JS Em dom., 15 de set. de 2024 12:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> escreve

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Leo, On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 12:40 -0300, Leo Historias wrote: > Still, we already have rust in the PPC32 repositories so why not compile > Firefox with that Rust? Ironically, even i386 has Firefox 115ESR and it > doesn't require sse2 at all unlike the official Firefox download page at > Mozil

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread Leo Historias
Ok, thanks for the update. Still, we already have rust in the PPC32 repositories so why not compile Firefox with that Rust? Ironically, even i386 has Firefox 115ESR and it doesn't require sse2 at all unlike the official Firefox download page at Mozilla. Em dom., 15 de set. de 2024 12:32, John Pau

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Leo, On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 12:29 -0300, Leo Historias wrote: > They should update firefox to the latest one considering it is outdated > and 52esr is out of support. 115ESR or 128esr is more updated than 52esr. getting a current version of Firefox to work on 32-bit PowerPC is anything but t

Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

2024-09-15 Thread Leo Historias
They should update firefox to the latest one considering it is outdated and 52esr is out of support. 115ESR or 128esr is more updated than 52esr.

Bug#1081849: qemu-i386: can't run busybox:i386 on ppc64el: Segmentation fault

2024-09-15 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: qemu-user Version: 1:9.0.2+ds-2+b1 Severity: normal User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64el X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org The new cross-exe-wrapper package in src:architecture-properties runs binaries from a foreign architecture, either directly or via qemu