Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC
On 3/6/19 12:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 3/6/19 5:52 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> So would it be of value for me to fire up Debian buster or sid on a
>> PowerMac G5 here and do some testing? Not sure where you are getting
>> your Firefox from. Also is that the nightly builds?
>
> We're building stock Debian packages from unstable. Debian has a "firefox"
> and a "firefox-esr" package, both maintained by Mike Hommey who is also
> an engineer working at Mozilla.
>
>> I currently am
>> running 67.0a1 where about:buildconfig claims :
>>
>> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/78601cacfe69dc8659c3fe7cd3eb94366aa3d680
>>
>> Is this similar to Firefox for PowerPC ?
>
> There is no "Firefox for PowerPC". Again, I'm not building packages manually
> for powerpc/ppc64. All packages you are getting for powerpc and ppc64 are
> automatically built from what's in the Debian archive for Debian unstable.
>
> Any bug fixes should therefore either go to the corresponding Debian package,
> or even better, forwarded upstream. Keeping fixes in local repositories specifically
> for powerpc or ppc64 is a very bad idea because those fixes will have to be carried
> around indefinitely. You will always want to upstream everything to make sure
> everyone gets those fixes.
>
> And if something crashes on SPARC, for example, there is a chance the bug also
> affects x86, just in a more subtle way.
Ha. Let's not drag the SPARC world into this. In my opinion, based on
some twenty years of observational data, the only problem with SPARC
based systems is that they are horribly slow and run horribly hot while
costing horrible amounts of money. Other than that it is a fantastic
architecture. :-)
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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