Re: What's up with Mozilla
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 at 13:57:06 -0800, Forrest English wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Greg Gilbert <greg@treke.net> wrote:
> > >What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18,
> > >and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade
> > >to something more recent(Like 0.8). Has the package been orphaned or
> > >something?
> >
> > No, apparently he's busy polishing the 0.8 packaging and trying to beat
> > things like PSM into the Debian packaging scheme. It seems it's
> > distinctly non-trivial to package.
>
> but in 0.8, psm is built in, it's no longer seperate.
Fair enough, I didn't know that. It's still a complex beast, an order of
magnitude beyond what I'd be capable of packaging well at the moment.
> i don't see whats so hard about making a package for mozilla unless
> he's compiling it himself... (and then, only hard drive space would
> be a problem).
Of course he's compiling it himself, all Debian packages in main are
compiled by the maintainer.
All I know is that questions about this to him or people who know him
are answered by "he's working really hard on this and is trying to
release as good a package as he can". I'd be surprised if it wasn't
available before that section of woody freezes, so there's time enough.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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