On 2015/03/15 20:54, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:04:45AM -0600, attila wrote:
> > 
> > Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On 2015/03/14 07:25, Jiri B wrote:
> > >> Couldn't this be a flavor of (your cloned) firefox-esr in the beginning?
> > >
> > > That will likely get in the way of people updating firefox-esr..
> > 
> > Perhaps I could truly automate the generation of patches in a way that
> > would simplify this.  Of course there can always be some issue that
> > involves manual intervention, like a conflict in a firefox-esr patch
> > with a Tor browser patch.  As long as they were detected and flagged
> > by the automation it might not be too onerous.  I'm willing to go this
> > way if landry@ agrees, since he's the maintainer.  It feels to me like
> > a flavor of firefox-esr is worth pursuing now that I'm thinking about
> > it that way.
> 
> Having it as a flavor of firefox-esr will put the burden of ensuring
> that those damn patches still apply at each update on me..

+1. This is going to be far worse than the horrible sidebar patch to mutt.
Unless it's kept separate, it *will* get in the way of security fixes to
firefox-esr.


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