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Bug#507218: Songbird RFP



retitle 555700 ITP: songbird -- desktop Web player, a digital jukebox
and Web browser
forcemerge 412437 507218 555700
thanks

Hi,

Thanks for this RFP. There are currently two existing ITP bugs for
Songbird. Currently packaging Songbird is blocked by the large(ish)
number of custom patches [0] for xulrunner it depends upon. A number
of these we can work around or don't relate to any Debian
architectures, but that's not true of all of them. I'm not happy with
the idea of shipping a 2nd, patched version of xulrunner in Debian
from the security perspective alone and whilst I would very much like
to see Songbird in Debian I don't think pushing these patches into the
Debian version of xulrunner is appropriate either. Unfortunately at
the moment it seems like the best course of action is waiting on the
upstream authors to reduce this list.

I am fairly regularly monitoring this situation though, and if
something changes I do intend to produce a package.

Thanks for your interest,
Alan

[0] - http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/User:Stevel/XULRunner_Patches



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