On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:03 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I have a question, if anyone here has an answer...
>
> Is it the intent of the Debian team that Iceweasel actually fork the
> codebase, or are they just going to remove the nonfree bits and change
> the name of each new Firefox release? If the former, then it will
> become a new beast. It is only a matter of time. If the latter, then
> it is basically just an unbranded Firefox that they can provide timely
> security updates on without having to go through Mozilla.org.
>
> Does anyone have an answer to this?
The want is unbranded Firefox. It may go the other way.
There are parts that are removed that were non-Debian supported
platforms (like OS2) and pieces that are completely broken and/or are
missing in any case. Looks like a couple of additions are added as
security additions.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
So, I guess it is like what Debian does in any case. Slightly changed
but most original. Eventually Debian like to only accept or do
patches/additions that are accepted upstream.
So, it is like a standard Debian Package, Original with a Diff patch and
description.
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