Re: Updates for Firefox 57 beta

Mátyás Selmeci <mselmeci.ml@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:09:30 -0500



    On 10/18/17 07:21, James Hogarth wrote:

    
            On 17 Oct 2017 17:40, "Gerald B.
              Cox" <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote:

              
                      On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at
                        1:33 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx>
                        wrote:

                        
                                And even if we hypothetically
                                  forked Firefox (as that is what it
                                  would be) to add legacy extension
                                  capability back it would mark a
                                  significant divergence with upstream
                                  and I'm not sure if addons.mozilla.org
                                  could even be used then anyway as it'd
                                  detect FF57 and state that older
                                  extensions are not supported. That
                                  doesn't even go into the legal
                                  situation as to whether we could even
                                  call it Firefox with such divergence
                                  (remember Iceweasel?) ... there's a
                                  reason there's a whitelist on the
                                  Firefox packages for build permissions
                                  after all.
                                

                                And how long would you want FF
                                  packagers to maintain such a patchset
                                  for? Even the next ESR will drop
                                  legacy extensions.
                                

                  Yup!  It's a non-starter. 
                    Mozilla knows exactly what they are doing - and have
                    made their decision.
                  

                  https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/04/05/compatibility-firefox-54/#comment-223852
                  

        To keep interested parties here in the loop...
        

        The COPR is operational and a draft for review
          has been entered into the magazine with details for this
          preview on the magazine mailing list.
        

        I'll keep the COPR updated as best I can with
          any changes to the the Fedora 27 package... may lag by a day
          or so but I'll do my best ;)
        

        Note that although there are F25 builds in the
          COPR there will be no Firefox 57 builds going into the
          official F25 repos so that one really is no support and just
          there to ease testing. 
        

        I'll keep the COPR running and updated until the
          Firefox 57 packages eventually return to the F26 testing repo
          after it is released upstream. 
        

        The COPR will be removed at that point. 

        
    Where is the COPR? I searched for "firefox" on
    copr.fedorainfracloud.org but did not find it.

    
    Thanks,

    -Mat

  
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