Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

[Nils Gillmann]

Mike Gerwitz transcribed 1.8K bytes:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07 +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote:
> > Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a
> > package for Firefox 60.  Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but
> > it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes
> > freezes my computer).
> 
> This is a big problem.  Thanks for keeping up with the status.
> 
> I'll get into contact with the necessary people on behalf of GNU to
> figure out the current status of IceCat.
> 
> But as was stated in another thread, once we _do_ have an updated IceCat
> source distribution, we need it packaged for Guix, and that is quite the
> undertaking.  Has anyone pursued packaging modern versions of vanilla FF
> in recent months?

Yes, I have. The outcome was not so much progress because Firefox
starting at a certain version does no longer allow disabling the build
of the rust crates. You then need a way to deal with the "breakage" in
the directory 'thirdparty/rust/' and its subdirectories.
Progress could be achieved with a phase which either records our changes
to the checksum related files or reverts our changes.

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