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Always wondered why such projects are not part of Debian main repository.

• teddyh 3y ago
  Librewolf has been requested since 2021, but no Debian Developer has volunteered to be responsible for the package: <https://bugs.debian.org/981291 https://bugs.debian.org/981291> Since the Librewolf developers are providing a .deb package themselves, they could apply to become a Debian Maintainer; i.e. be able to upload that package (and no other packages) directly to Debian.
  • Macha 3y ago
    Browsers are complicated to package and so maintainers may not feel it's worth the time to package a fork of Firefox. Especially as pale moon's drama in the past may have led to a general skepticism about the whole ecosystem.
    • ploum 3y ago
      Never heard about this drama. Any link to share?
      • dralley 3y ago
        An OpenBSD developer was preparing a port of Pale Moon, and the PaleMoon devs were absolutely massive pricks about it, immediately became aggressive and started talking about lawyers, at which point all bridges were burnt and all work on Pale Moon for OpenBSD was dropped. https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86 https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
        • teddyh 3y ago
          Don’t forget the whole Debian Iceweasel thing (now thankfully resolved): <https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Iceweasel https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Iceweasel>