Firefox ESR package is really needed

[Jamie Bennett]

> On 4 Oct 2017, at 08:15, James Henstridge <james.henstridge at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3 October 2017 at 23:55, Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 12:27:36AM +0300, Nrbrtx wrote:
>>> Thanks to JonathonF - he built latest Firefox ESR 52.4.0. Interested users
>>> may download it from PPA
>>> https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr
>>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Ejonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr> .
>>> 
>>> But this is not user-friendly solution.
>> 
>> Given that others are already doing the work in their PPAs, I wonder if
>> any of them would be able to get together and volunteer to maintain
>> firefox-esr in Ubuntu's official archive, working alongside the existing
>> maintenance of non-ESR Firefox done by the desktop team?
>> 
>> As has already been mentioned by others this might involve some
>> additional work to make the two play well in the archive together.
>> 
>> Is there anyone who is prepared to drive this? Presumably there's no
>> point in considering how (and if) it might work technically unless we
>> have volunteers though.
> 
> Another option would be to try and package firefox-esr as a snap.
> This would give access to multiple Ubuntu releases with a single
> build, and give the ability to push out updates independent of the
> Ubuntu release process.  The package would also show up automatically
> in gnome-software without the need for the user to add a PPA.
> 
> You'd have access to the same Launchpad build infrastructure as you'd
> have for a PPA build or one in the main Ubuntu archive, so once things
> are set up it should be relatively easy to get builds for multiple
> architectures pushed out.

+1 on this, a snap seems the best approach.

> James.
> 
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