Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-bin . My guess is as follows: This arose from Waterfox changing their versions from "current" to "G", short for "generation". hawkeye116477, the maintainer for the former package and former maintainer for the latter package, decided to create a new package, waterfox-g-bin, for later releases and keep waterfox-current-bin frozen at the last release with "current". However, MarsSeed orphaned waterfox-current-bin through [PRQ#42365] in June and Leo Izen claimed it and updated it to the latest Waterfox G. The current situation is that Waterfox refers to "Waterfox G" as simply "Waterfox" and both bin packages have the wrong name. What should be done? Also, is it necessary to have both gtk3 and gtk2 as dependencies? Looking at the PKGBUILDs the only difference between the packages is waterfox-g-bin disables automatic updates + update notifications and has the extra profile manager desktop action while waterfox-current-bin has none of these and has the extra dependency "nss" (is this necessary?) P.S.: I've Bcc'd everybody I've named in this email. I'm new to the AUR, so tell me if that's not the right thing to do.
Sep 1, 2023 15:15:44 Aaron Liu <aaronliu0130@gmail.com>:
P.S.: I've Bcc'd everybody I've named in this email. I'm new to the AUR, so tell me if that's not the right thing to do.
Probably should have sent this to aur-general, maybe with regular CC'ing the concerned parties.
Yeah, I also sent [this](https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-general@lists.archlinux.org/t...) but apparently I have to do some very specific things for Mailman to recognize that as a reply.
On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 15:15 -0400, Aaron Liu wrote:
Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-bin .
Hi, you should probably add comments to the AUR instead of sending a request to a mailing list. However, there's an AUR mailing list: https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/lists/aur-general.lists.archlinux.org/ Btw. thank you, I wasn't aware that I'm using an obsolete package: local/waterfox-g4-bin 1.5-0.3 Fourth generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. I wonder how many of those waterfox related packages are useful? chaotic-aur/kwaterfoxhelper 5.0.7-0.3 Waterfox KDE Plasma Integration chaotic-aur/waterfox-g-bin 5.1.11-0 Current/modern generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. chaotic-aur/waterfox-g3-bin 2.6-1.3 Third generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. aur/firefox-decrypt-git 1.0.0+44.r296.20230707.2c61b27-1 (2) (0.06) A tool to extract passwords from Mozilla (Firefox™, Waterfox™, Thunderbird®, SeaMonkey®) profiles. aur/kwaterfoxhelper 5.0.7-0 (11) (0.00) Waterfox KDE Plasma Integration aur/mercury-browser-bin 115.2.0-1 (7) (1.69) Firefox fork with compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, and GNU IceCat. aur/profile-sync-daemon-waterfox 2021.12.15-2 (0) (0.00) Waterfox browser support for profile-sync-daemon aur/waterfox G5.1.7-1 (Out of Date) (12) (0.06) Fork of Mozilla Firefox featuring some privacy, usability, and speed enhancements. aur/waterfox-classic-bin 2022.11-0 (95) (0.08) Customizable privacy-conscious web browser with primary support for legacy extensions aur/waterfox-classic-kpe 2022.11-0 (9) (0.00) Customizable privacy conscious web browser with better integration with KDE aur/waterfox-current-bin G5.1.12-1 (10) (0.65) 64-bit Firefox fork; no telemetry; supports XUL & XPCOM (incl. unsigned) add-ons. aur/waterfox-g-arkenfox-autoconfig 115.0-1 (0) (0.00) Use arkenfox user.js system-wide, as waterfox-g autoconfig.js policy aur/waterfox-g-bin 5.1.11-0 (Out of Date) (21) (1.54) Current/modern generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. aur/waterfox-g-kpe 5.1.10-0 (9) (0.00) Customizable privacy conscious web browser with better integration with KDE and primary support for webextensions aur/waterfox-g3-arkenfox-autoconfig 115.0-1 (0) (0.00) Use arkenfox user.js system-wide, as waterfox-g3 autoconfig.js policy aur/waterfox-g3-bin 2.6-1 (4) (0.00) Third generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. aur/waterfox-g4-arkenfox-autoconfig 115.0-1 (0) (0.00) Use arkenfox user.js system-wide, as waterfox-g4 autoconfig.js policy Regards, Ralf
IDK what exactly the KDE ones do but anything that has "waterfox" in the /package name/ and isn't at a version of 5.1.12 is outdated. Note that firefox-decrypt-git, mercury-browser-bin, and the transgenerational arkenfox configs aren't the browser. On 2023/9/1 15:34, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 15:15 -0400, Aaron Liu wrote:
Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-bin . Hi,
you should probably add comments to the AUR instead of sending a request to a mailing list. However, there's an AUR mailing list: https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/lists/aur-general.lists.archlinux.org/
Btw. thank you, I wasn't aware that I'm using an obsolete package:
local/waterfox-g4-bin 1.5-0.3 Fourth generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser.
I wonder how many of those waterfox related packages are useful?
chaotic-aur/kwaterfoxhelper 5.0.7-0.3 Waterfox KDE Plasma Integration chaotic-aur/waterfox-g-bin 5.1.11-0 Current/modern generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. chaotic-aur/waterfox-g3-bin 2.6-1.3 Third generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. aur/firefox-decrypt-git 1.0.0+44.r296.20230707.2c61b27-1 (2) (0.06) A tool to extract passwords from Mozilla (Firefox™, Waterfox™, Thunderbird®, SeaMonkey®) profiles. aur/kwaterfoxhelper 5.0.7-0 (11) (0.00) Waterfox KDE Plasma Integration aur/mercury-browser-bin 115.2.0-1 (7) (1.69) Firefox fork with compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, and GNU IceCat. aur/profile-sync-daemon-waterfox 2021.12.15-2 (0) (0.00) Waterfox browser support for profile-sync-daemon aur/waterfox G5.1.7-1 (Out of Date) (12) (0.06) Fork of Mozilla Firefox featuring some privacy, usability, and speed enhancements. aur/waterfox-classic-bin 2022.11-0 (95) (0.08) Customizable privacy-conscious web browser with primary support for legacy extensions aur/waterfox-classic-kpe 2022.11-0 (9) (0.00) Customizable privacy conscious web browser with better integration with KDE aur/waterfox-current-bin G5.1.12-1 (10) (0.65) 64-bit Firefox fork; no telemetry; supports XUL & XPCOM (incl. unsigned) add-ons. aur/waterfox-g-arkenfox-autoconfig 115.0-1 (0) (0.00) Use arkenfox user.js system-wide, as waterfox-g autoconfig.js policy aur/waterfox-g-bin 5.1.11-0 (Out of Date) (21) (1.54) Current/modern generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. aur/waterfox-g-kpe 5.1.10-0 (9) (0.00) Customizable privacy conscious web browser with better integration with KDE and primary support for webextensions aur/waterfox-g3-arkenfox-autoconfig 115.0-1 (0) (0.00) Use arkenfox user.js system-wide, as waterfox-g3 autoconfig.js policy aur/waterfox-g3-bin 2.6-1 (4) (0.00) Third generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser. aur/waterfox-g4-arkenfox-autoconfig 115.0-1 (0) (0.00) Use arkenfox user.js system-wide, as waterfox-g4 autoconfig.js policy
Regards, Ralf
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