Re: IceCat-68.2.0-guix0-preview2 now available via GNU Guix

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Johannes,

Johannes Marbach <address@hidden> writes:

> I have successfully built the source tarball with guix on OpenSuse and
> then after installing all needed dependencies managed to compile it
> following the steps in the README. Nothing stuck out during compilation
> and IceCat seems to run fine from what I can tell.

I'm glad to hear it, thanks for letting us know!

> Two minor things I noticed:
>
> 1. All extensions are listed with a big yellow disclaimer about being
> unverified on about:addons.

I see a similar issue on my Guix system, although in my case it doesn't
happen for _all_ bundled extensions, only some of them.

More generally, there are several unresolved problems related to the
bundled extensions in IceCat.  Here are my current notes on this:

* Reconsider this somewhat questionable IceCat-specific setting
  (in gnuzilla/data/settings.js):

    // Do not require xpi extensions to be signed by Mozilla
    pref("xpinstall.signatures.required", false);

* These bundled extensions are not shown in <about:addons>:

    tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum
    disable-polymer-youtube@extension
    viewtube@extension

  for each one, there are text messages like this printed to
  stdout/stderr on launch:

  1572735499245 addons.xpi-utils        WARN    addMetadata: Add-on 
tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum is invalid: Error: Invalid addon ID: 
expected addon ID tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum, found undefined in 
manifest(resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIDatabase.jsm:2715:15) JS Stack trace: 
address@hidden:2715:15

* These bundled extensions show a big yellow warning in
  <about:addons> about being unverified:

    jid1-KtlZuoiikVfFew@jetpack  (GNU LibreJS)
    SubmitMe@0xbeef.coffee   (Reveal hidden HTML)
    address@hidden
    address@hidden

* These bundled extensions look okay in <about:addons>, but I
  haven't tested them:

    goteo@0xbeef.coffee
    DMCAreg@0xbeef.coffee
    google_drive@0xbeef.coffee
    FreeUSPS@0xbeef.coffee
    rnrMcDonalds@0xbeef.coffee
    rsf@0xbeef.coffee

* This bundled extension looks okay in <about:addons>, but has been
  reported to be broken by a user:

    SimpleSumOfUs@0xbeef.coffee

> 2. about:rights brings up an XML parsing error message.

I see the same problem on my system.

Thanks very much for reporting these issues, Johannes!

     Regards,
       Mark