Will icecat and or iceweasel and or iceape and or icedove be packaged for Ubuntu Linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 03:40:11 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>GNU icecat is apparently only available in tarball form (which caused
>snowballing problems with Netscape and its products)

Hi,

every now and then I install IceCat on Arch Linux and Ubuntu. On both
the latest version I installed is GNU IceCat 60.7.0. The latest
snapshot from git seems to be 78.8.0 [1]. I don't know what those
"snowballing problems with Netscape and its products" are, but in my
experiences IceCat <= 60.7.0 is completely unusable to view almost all
websites, at least unless you disable all IceCat specific privacy
settings. I wonder if there are still any benefits by using IceCat with
all those special privacy settings disabled. Probably it's just very
insecure, since latest IceCat releases are based on way outdated
releases of Firefox [2].

FWIW Firefox and Thunderbird are supported by official Ubuntu
repositories and support is provided by the Ubuntu mailing lists.

I understand concerns related to the original Mozilla software, but in
my experiences migrating to forks, such as the Ice named ones or
Pale Moon [3] is pointless.

Regards,
Ralf

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat#Version_history
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna_(software)