Bug 375513

Summary:	[mozilla overlay] ebuilds for Firefox beta and aurora release channels
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Denis Lisov <dennis.lissov>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	navid.zamani
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Denis Lisov 2011-07-17 22:24:11 UTC

Please provide ebuilds in the mozilla-overlay for Firefox 6 (Beta release channel) and (optionally) Firefox 7 (Aurora release channel, probably a live ebuild).

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2011-07-18 02:11:27 UTC

Beta's and Alpha's are provided as a team member has time, we will not force any member of the mozilla team to make a commit to the overlay to support a beta or alpha release.

Comment 2 Navid Zamani 2014-04-05 16:14:53 UTC

This is still a thing.

the ~* versions of FF in Portage should be the betas. And the auroras should be masked by default but unmaskable.

It fits the Gentoo ecosystem pretty well. So why the nonsensical and invalid “support” excuse?

You know that you don’t *have* to provide support for those, right? In fact they can’t and shouldn’t be supported, other than people being able to report bugs at Mozilla’s Bugzilla (which is the point of beta and aurora releases).

Anyway, the works to make those ebuilds will have to happen anyway. So they can just as well be done in aurora times, and then will already be ready on the normal non-beta release.

Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2014-04-05 21:28:51 UTC

(In reply to Navid Zamani from comment #2)
> This is still a thing.
> 
> the ~* versions of FF in Portage should be the betas. And the auroras should
> be masked by default but unmaskable.
> 
> It fits the Gentoo ecosystem pretty well. So why the nonsensical and invalid
> “support” excuse?
> 
> You know that you don’t *have* to provide support for those, right? In fact
> they can’t and shouldn’t be supported, other than people being able to
> report bugs at Mozilla’s Bugzilla (which is the point of beta and aurora
> releases).
> 
> Anyway, the works to make those ebuilds will have to happen anyway. So they
> can just as well be done in aurora times, and then will already be ready on
> the normal non-beta release.

It is easy to look at this when your looking inwards. Now if you look at this from the mozilla teams point of view you would know we already have enough trouble keeping up with esr branch along with arch branch. Feel free to create your own ebuild if you feel that much of a need.

Comment 4 Navid Zamani 2014-04-05 22:02:27 UTC

(In reply to Jory A. Pratt from comment #3)

Hey, thanks. Yes, I figured it might have something to do with already being overworked. I in no way wanted to make it look like I demand anything. The whole point of a open source community like this is that everybody does only what he wants. So thank you for making the effort to reply. :)

I might indeed make an ebuild (and do my part for this community). I might also dump FF (with the direction going more and more towards insanity aka Chrome[OS] since Gecko 2.0).