On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:57:14PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> This is indeed Debian’s problem, but Debian won’t solve it if no one
> actively works on it. I guess we could indeed switch back to gecko, but
> only if someone volunteers to both:
> * help the Debian Mozilla maintainers on xulrunner, especially
> wrt. gtkmozembed (which is not maintained upstream),
> * maintain the gecko backend in yelp (remember that this code
> breaks every time xulrunner is upgraded).
>
> Currently this is not possible due to a lack of visibility on gecko
> maintenance. The recent announcements from Mozilla, which imply a halt
> of any kind of long-term (and even medium-term) security support, do not
> make me very fond of the idea.
>
> Remember that just because Ubuntu managed to build a package, doesn’t
> make it suitable for Debian. This package has to work for the whole
> squeeze lifetime, not just for 6 months.
>
I thought I could do the needed work, but after reading more, I realize
it is beyond my current ability. I'm sure I can learn enough eventually,
but I know there is a deadline.
At this point, the only thing I can suggest is document the issue in
the release notes for squeeze. No help isn't a problem for long time users
of Gnome or Linux, but will be a problem for new users.
Kenny
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