Simon Josefsson writes ("Re: GNU IceCat?"):
> What's a good way to do that efficiently? People have submitted bugs
> against Iceweasel to do some of the things that IceCat does by default,
> for example https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654336
Well, a good start would be to turn bugs
Severity: wishlist
into bugs
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
?
I'm not surprised that the Iceweasel team don't have much time for
anything which isn't strictly essential. A well-tested and maintained
and maintainable patch would make it more feasible.
> The normal approach in that situation is to also package the fork of
> the projects to give users a choice, similar to what's done with
> MariaDB/MySQL.
I don't think this is a good engineering solution for a situation
where what we're talking about is essentially different configuration,
rather than a different codebase.
If you do find that the Iceweasel maintainers are not interested
enough in your goals, then a better engineering solution might be an
overlay package which overrides some of the configuration defaults.
(If there is currently no good mechanism for such an overlay package,
that is a generically useful thing which I would expect both Debian's
Iceweasel people and indeed upstream Mozilla to welcome.)
Ian.
