tag 322521 wontfix thanks On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:42:35PM +0100, Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reopen 322521 > severity 322521 wishlist > retitle 322521 Please provide firefox-dev and xulrunner packages > thanks > > Hi, > > On jeu, aoû 11, 2005, Hidetaka Iwai wrote: > > I maintain the debian package of kazehakase(gecko based web browser) > > and kazehakase can use lib libgtkembedmoz.so of mozilla-firefox since > > version 0.2.6. > > (I maintain the Galeon packages and co-maintain the Yelp, Epiphany and > mozilla-bonobo packages.) > > > I plan to use the firefox's gecko as the rendering engine of > > kazehakase, so could you please provide libgtkembedmoz.so with > > mozilla-firefox package, and a development package such as > > mozilla-firefox-dev? > > So do I. I am reopening this bug because I think it is of actuality > again. Ubuntu is building Galeon against Firefox since months. They > just decided they will build most things against Firefox: > > <http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2005-November/000018.html> > > I don't want to start the "Ubuntu can do it, why can't Debian do it" > kind of discussion, but I'm sensible to: > - most active upstream projects such as Epiphany, Galeon, Yelp being > ready to switch to Firefox > - the availability of two upstream products serving the same purpose > (Mozilla and Firefox), with one being abandonned and one actively > developped > - the fact that this means we're maintaining two products in Debian (eg > wasting time) > - third party apps are forced to use the older product, Mozilla > - users are forced to install mozilla-browser, but really want to run > firefox > > Now Ubuntu certainly has control on their copy of the mozilla source > package, and this means there would have been two reasons for them > *not* to do such a switch: > - they could have tried to not diverge two much from Debian > - they could have fixed the mozilla source package > ... but Ubuntu choosed to switch to Firefox. > > I would be interested in knowing what's hold-up-ing the firefox > development packages, or xulrunner.
Time. But I'm not holding up things, if you want to help, you can ask me for my current diff.gz. And I'll repeat myself : there won't be a mozilla-firefox-dev package. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
