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

[Tom H]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 9:42 PM Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> As mozilla is shutting down mailing list support for firefox and
> seamonkey and all other support mailing lists that it hosts, and,
> as Debian apparently abandoned iceweasel and iceape and icedove and
> none of these are available in the Ubuntu repository, and GNU
> icecat is apparently only available in tarball form (which caused
> snowballing problems with Netscape and its products), will any or
> all of these, become packaged and maintained for Ubuntu Linux, and,
> supported via mailing lists?

iceape, icedove, iceowl, iceweasel stopped being developed by Debian
because it settled its copyright problem with Mozilla. Ubuntu never
had them in its repos.

iceweasel and icedove were replaced by firefox and thunderbird in the
Debian repos. I'm not sure about iceape and iceowl.