ports/75580: [PATCH] www/firefox: main merge from debian

[Michael Johnson]

The following reply was made to PR ports/75580; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Johnson <ahze at ahze.net>
To: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, gnome at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/75580: [PATCH] www/firefox: main merge from debian
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:58:24 -0500

 On Dec 28, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
 
 
 
 > Michael Johnson wrote:
 >
 >
 >> Since we are approved for official build of firefox we can not apply  
 >> this patch
 >> according to  
 >> http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/l10n-policy.html ,
 >> but we can either try to get permission, which I doubt we can from  
 >> looking
 >> at the debian mailing lists about this patch, or make a master slave  
 >> port of firefox ie: firefox-locales which would include this patch  
 >> and not include any official
 >> branding.
 >>
 >> Michael
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 > The main problem is that, without the patched extension manager, is  
 > near impossible integrate extensions/themes from ports/packages.
 >
 > The other solution is use a vfb server to do the work required as  
 > root, but I've bad feedback on this.
 >
 > I carefully documented what is done. Most of the patches have real  
 > sense in a Unix env and
 > does't violates any mozilla policies.
 >
 yeah, those we should be able to apply with out any problem at all.
 
 > I posted this to now:
 >
 > - If any of the patches have a side ill efect.
 > - If any of the patches have any problem with mozilla logos or  
 > trademarks
 > - If sugested fixes/functionality don't get the price.
 >
 > Please, review this, bit by bit.
 >
 > Most of this (I'm not sure about all) may be valid for, at last, a  
 > 'comunity release'.
 >
 > Also, part of this can be make from extra-patches and controlled from  
 > options if you need branding for
 > official builds.
 That won't work, I've already been in discussion with mozilla team &  
 gentoo mozilla team about options like this,
   it'll have to be totally separate port with different name all  
 together (has to be "Firefox Community Edition"
 and port name firefox-community-edition).
 
 > you can get a better view of all this work by
 > $ cd wk
 > $ tar -xjf .../firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2
 > $ fetch  
 > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla- 
 > firefox_1.0+dfsg.1-1.diff.gz
 > $ cd mozilla
 > $ zcat ../mozilla-firefox_1.0+dfsg.1-1.diff.gz patch -p1
 >
 I'll take a closer look at this patch tonight and try to see what we  
 are able to use.
 
 > Right now, get a way to install extension/themes/langpacks from ports  
 > seems most important that
 > mozilla icons
 It's not just icons, its the Firefox name. The mozilla team reserves  
 the right to take the firefox name away
 from us.
 
 > (none of our ports works with the new firefox/thunderbird extensions  
 > manager).
 >
 > --
 >  josemi
 >