On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 03:22:40PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:10:45 +0200 Johannes Rohr <jor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It would be great to have firefox (or the next firefox-esr) in > > buster-backports, as it has important new functionality relevant for > > privacy and data protection, such as the multi account containers > > function. However, this bug prevents firefox from entering testing, > > which in my understanding implies, that it cannot make it into backports > > as well. Is there some way of getting an up-to-date firefox version into > > stable? For now I work with the binary directly downloaded from > > mozilla.org, but this is a kludge. > > > > We have created https://fasttrack.debian.net for packages like this > which cannot go with stable releases and hence blocked from entering > testing and backports as well. > > Mike, > > Would you like to maintain firefox in buster-fasttrack? > > I'm part of the team that maintain this unofficial service and maintains > gitlab there. If you are okay with the idea, but does not want to do the > extra work, I'd be happy to maintain it in fasttrack.
The package in unstable can be built for stable as long as its version contains a ~bpo thing. That could be changed to also support fto. But the bigger problem is that it requires new versions of rustc, cargo and cbindgen, which in turn requires a new version of llvm. And it requires new versions of these quite regularly. So, no, I'm not really interested in maintaining that. Mike
