Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0

[Matthew Woehlke]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> What's to stop someone ITP'ing* icecat? Get it in the repo, and go from 
>> there. If you can't work /with/ the maintainer(s), work around them.
> 
> Then we'd have 2 packages with the same software,

So? glibc and eglibc? :-) (I was actually thinking that this situation 
sounds rather similar to that...)

> and then there's also the problem of xulrunner being locked down as
> well (and that's a library used by a lot of stuff).

Why is xulrunner locked down? If it uses Mozilla trademarks, presumably 
they can be removed (I'd guess they'd have to be to build icecat, so I 
assume this is possible). If it needs to change, ITP/SFR an opened 
version at the same time as icecat. If it can be used as-is, we could 
start with icecat and wait for that to gain some traction, thus taking 
on the stack on one part at a time. Maybe we get lucky and success of 
icecat convinces the xulrunner maintainer to open things up.

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Matthew
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