Blue Shell PPA for Firefox -- package name confusion

[Scott Kitterman]

It's not politics.  For security reasons, packages in the archive aren't 
allowed to autoinstall from PPAs.  The KDE Firefox patches were dropped from 
the Ubuntu archive Firefox due to the amount of work it took to keep them up 
to date and integrated with new Firefox releases.  If someone from the 
community were willing to commit to do that work, I think it would be worth 
discussing with the Mozilla team about getting them back in.

Scott K

On Saturday, November 03, 2012 10:48:32 AM Dale Trombley wrote:
> 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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> >> >> 
> >> >>   Ubuntu/KDE developer  tmt at ubuntu.com
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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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