[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey mga1 package missing updates - mozilla branding issues -- was [Seamonkey package]

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Mon Feb 6 22:15:24 CET 2012


Am 06.02.2012 21:43, schrieb Kamil Rytarowski:
> On 06.02.2012 21:04, Florian Hubold wrote:
>> Am 12.01.2012 16:55, schrieb Florian Hubold:
>>> Am 07.01.2012 18:36, schrieb Florian Hubold:
>>>> Am 16.04.2011 16:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
>>>>> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I just downloaded the latest Seamonkey 2.0.12 SRPM from Mandriva cooker and
>>>>>> rebuilt it on my Mageia VM and it built flawlessly, I only had to remove
>>>>>> all the obsolete "%if %mdkversion" sections, but all dependecies are
>>>>>> available in Mageia.
>>>>>> So technically importing Seamonkey into Mageia seems straightforward, the
>>>>>> only issue is licensing (as for Firefox).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Christiaan I'm a newbie packager here at Mageia so personally I'd much
>>>>>> prefer if you maintain this package for Mageia, it looks far too complex
>>>>>> for me. :)
>>>>> I uploaded "iceape 2.0.12" a few days ago, changing the name and icons/logo
>>>>> took me almost a month. Unfortunately there are still some bugs in this
>>>>> area:  the release notes menu item for example currently still points to
>>>>> seamonkey. It should probably point to a mageia wiki page.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since I don't like the icons that is used for debian's iceape, I created a
>>>>> new icon based on the logo. It looks like it can still be improved, however,
>>>>> and the throbber is currently static. So it would be great if someone could
>>>>> re-do the icon (without creating a completely new design), and animate it
>>>>> for
>>>>> the throbber (he SVG files are in iceape-branding.tar in the source rpm and
>>>>> svn)...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      Christiaan
>>>>>
>>>> As iceape for mga1 hasn't seen any update in the last 6 months,
>>>> and there are multiple serious security issues that need fixing,
>>>> how do we handle this?
>>>>
>>>> And i've found no real reason for this rebranding in the first place,
>>>> and this seems also be the case for Fedora, and they have a strong
>>>> legal department.
>>>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=seamonkey.git
>>>>
>>>> > From what i read on bugreports between debian packagers and
>>>> mozilla guys about that branding situation, the only thing that would
>>>> need to be done to seamonkey (actually the same would need to
>>>> be done for all our mozilla packages, unless we have permission
>>>> to use the branding, which would imply that all our modifications
>>>> on mozilla packages would need to be reviewed and ack-ed by mozilla
>>>> to get the branding permission) would be to use --disable-official-branding
>>>> configure option.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ping?
>>>
>>>
>> Pinging again, because nobody replied. This should also be discussed
>> at next packager meeting, together with the situation according the branding
>> of other mozilla packages. Because we have branding enabled, which we shouldn't
>> have as we can't use branding AND have modified builds (different than upstream
>> tarball)
>> without approval of all modifications from mozilla.
>>
>>
>> For reference, here's the upstream report i was talking about, which i've
>> recently found again:
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555935
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> resending because of maintainer mail adress typo
> In my opinion we can drop that package, and in its place have Firefox-ESR,
> next to standard Firefox.
>
How are we supposed to drop seamonkey/iceape from a released distro?
BTW: Do you use seamonkey/iceape, and know how it is different from a
standalone browser like firefox?


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