xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

Brandon Lozza brandon at pwnage.ca
Thu Oct 14 14:38:29 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Nonsense.
> * Whenever somebody complains about the Firefox maintainers rejecting non-
> upstream patches, they give the trademarks as the reason.
> * Whenever somebody complains about the branding, they claim it doesn't
> matter because we aren't carrying non-upstream patches anyway.
> That's a very circular argument. Please don't fall for it.
>
> There are some very concrete practical reasons for shipping some non-
> upstream patches, unbundling libraries is one of those.
>
>        Kevin Kofler

I agree and this is exactly how the argument is going. People in FESCo
have made it clear via their meeting notes that the Firefox branding
is more important than following package guidelines.

I liked what Spot had to say about the whole thing.


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