Alex Lancaster wrote:
This will take a *lot* of work from various packagers to make sure
that F-9 works out of the box. With all the packages that used to
build against firefox and we should probably bug all those package
maintainers to test the various packages and/or report things against
upstream to give them time to fix them so these packages work
properly.
Since i maintain galeon, i got word from an upstream developer that
xulrunner is still not exactly in a nice state to work with. To quote
him: "I'm holding off on this until mozilla sorts out the microb
problem. Apparently a good chunk of the brokenness is due to a bunch of
unreviewed microb (the n800 browser) patches being committed. They claim
they are going to back them out. Hopefully after that, [galeon] won't be
so crippled.".
Galeon now compiles thanks to Martin's patch, but it still has a number
of issues and disabled features..
I know almost nothing about mozilla/xulrunner upstream development, but
I have to ask: it's not just them (the packages that depend on firefox)
that have to be ready for xulrunner, will xulrunner also be ready for
them ? :-) (i.e. with enough time for maintainers/upstream to port/debug ?)
> Otherwise, I fear, Release Engineering will be forced drop
> them from the next release (at least from the the final package list)
If it comes to that, I hope we can debate whether it should not be
xulrunner that gets dropped and firefox-devel restored (assuming that's
even possible).
-denis
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