Blue Shell PPA for Firefox -- package name confusion

[Dale Trombley]

Is it possible to include the ppa as part of the firefox-installer that
comes on the iso?  would it be possible for the firefox-installer to
install this firefox-kde and have firefox be a separate package?  Could
firefox-kde be put on the standard kubuntu servers since it would be a
different package than firefox and skip the whole ppa part to begin with?
This would be ideal from a user point of view, and would simplify things
for the end-user greatly.  I don't know if any of this is possible from a
canonical point of view or a kubuntu point of view and the politics
therein, but now that we are truely a community version couldn't we just do
it anyway?


On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Rohan Garg <rohan16garg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep
>
> www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>wrote:
>
>> Rohan Garg <rohan16garg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Alrighty, here's a solution that I propose :
>> >
>> >Add a firefox-kde meta package that declares a explicit dependency on
>> >the
>> >firefox from the PPA ( as well as kmozillahelper ). This is the
>> >package targeted towards the general users who want Firefox and KDE
>> >integration.
>> >
>> >Other users who want Firefox with KDE integration but still want to get
>> >security updates can install the specific firefox version from the ppa
>> >by
>> >supplying the version over the apt command line or adding the PPA and
>> >upgrading.
>> >
>> >Thoughts?
>> >
>> >Best
>> >Rohan Garg
>> >
>> >
>> >www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg
>> >
>> >
>> >On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Jussi Kekkonen <tmt at ubuntu.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Without knowing the details more in depth, is there any particular
>> >> reason why the whole Firefox is bundled with the support? Any way it
>> >> could be a just support provided to "ubuntu-stock" Firefox as
>> >separate
>> >> package?
>> >>
>> >> On 20 September 2012 21:36, Rohan Garg <rohan16garg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Harald also pointed out that this would pose a security risk as we
>> >do
>> >> > not have releases the same day as ubuntu.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Rohan Garg
>> ><rohan16garg at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >> As suggested on IRC a couple of minutes, would it be viable to
>> >> >> document pinning the package using Muon? Jonathan says that this
>> >can
>> >> >> be done via muon ( downgrade the package and then pin it to the
>> >> >> current version ).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Best
>> >> >> Rohan Garg
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan
>> >> >> <ovidiu.b13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >>> +1
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Ovidiu - Florin Bogdan
>> >> >>> mob: +40 743-135.018 _
>> >> >>> I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads
>> >without a
>> >> >>> messy bloodbath.
>> >> >>> http://www.google.com/profiles/ovidiu.b13
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Steve Riley <steve at rileyz.net>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> On 2012-09-19 22:34:11 Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan
>> ><ovidiu.b13 at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >>>> >
>> >> >>>> > Does this package contain any elements that are specific to
>> >KDE?
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> It's Firefox compiled with KDE support. More info here:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+archive/firefox-kde
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> ...Steve
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
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>> I missed the start of this thread.  You're just talking about PPA
>> packages, right?
>>
>> Scott K
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