Le 08/02/2017 à 16:53, John D Jones III a écrit :
and while
jnbek isn’t inactive and answered he wanted to keep this package, it has not yet been updated, while firefox-dev is working almost OK.
Regards, Bruno
I should probably apologize for my much slower response time. I had two major spinal surgeries in 2015, this last one in December was quite a bit more painful than was expected. That said, I haven't been keeping up with my email anywhere near my usual everyday perusal. As stated in my previous email, I do try to get to out of date requests and 'hey this thing is broken' comments/emails as quickly as possible, I apologize for not notifying everyone much sooner as to the state of my maintainership. Right now, I am specifically focusing on my most popular and/or most actively developed pkgbuilds to keep them up to date. I did drop the ball with firefox-developer, knowing that updates occur sometimes in a matter of minutes and I will endeavor to prevent any further interruptions between the development process and pkgbuild updates. Of note, I did get the version updated last night and it should be working fine, if this is not the case, please let me know.
Sure, I understand your reasons. But do not hesitate to eventually state them on the package page, and if you lack time to care about some packages there is no shame in orphaning them or accepting comaintainers. ;)
Now, Bruno: What about the pulseaudio dependencies?
Try to play a video or any sound in Firefox without having pulseaudio installed, and tell me what happen. But I’m giving you the answer right away: a nice scroll notification telling you that pulseaudio is required to actually play sound in Firefox. So this should be added as an optional dependency (I, for one, live OK without sound in my browser, and prefer that above installing pulseaudio), just like ffmpeg is for h264 playback support. Note that Firefox didn’t dropped support for ALSA altogether, but it’s a compile time option off by default, so not in official mozilla builds. Also, regarding the PKGBUILD update, things have become even more simple, because the new build process (responsible for the missing checksum) added PGP sigs to the tarball itself. So checksums can be skipped altogether. Please find attached (I’m still unsure whether the list accept attachment, so if there is nothing just tell me) a new version that you can use, which will work without the checksum (but doesn’t work just now, see below for reason and a fix). When comparing with your package, the change are the following: – added all the known optdeps ; – proper handling of different sources for different CARCH (the way you do it currently is wrong) ; – make use of PGP sigs (note that at the moment this doesn’t work since the sig doesn’t match, but it works if you change the domain part of the url from https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/ to https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora/) ; – make use of system hyphen and hunspell ; – install more icons to hicolor. Cheers, Bruno