Hi Jens, On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 19:49:43 +0100, Jens Reyer <jre.wine...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stephen, can you shed some light on the main problem(s) blocking > frequent Gecko releases? Let's say, there's some chance that I help.
There are two issues: * wine-gecko typically requires a git snapshot of mingw-w64, so supporting its build in Debian (with the aim of stable releases) requires identifying and porting the required patches to the current mingw-w64 release (upstream are quite helpful with this) * updating the licensing information for each new wine-gecko release is extraordinarily time-consuming, on the order of 150-200h per release (and even then I miss issues) – TBH I've stalled on this, I'm thinking of working on a new approach where I just package the files that actually get used for the build and worry about the licensing information once I've figured that out Ideally we could piggy-back on the iceweasel licensing information, since the upstream code is pretty much the same, but that doesn't get updated all that often so it isn't necessarily all that accurate. (Take that with a pinch of salt though, I haven't checked the situation recently.) Regards, Stephen
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