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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2017 05:30:27 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Time for a firefox-56 port?
Message-ID:  <d145-br18-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20171126035222.GH25761@eureka.lemis.com> (Greg Lehey's message of "Sun, 26 Nov 2017 14:52:22 %2B1100")
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Sunday, 26 November 2017 at 14:22:18 +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 20:36:09 -0600, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>> So give it up, try Pale Moon.
>>
>> Does Pale Moon address my issues, specifically something to match
>> firemacs and It's all text!?  There's nothing that suggests it does.
>
> I've installed it now on a Microsoft box, and how about that, yes, it
> does support those addons.  Potentially it's usable, but it would
> respect POLA to add the firefox-56 port, as I suggested at the
> beginning.

There's no POLA on /head branch of FreeBSD Ports. UPDATING exists to
document POLA violating changes. I was under impression copy-pasting
upstream changelog into UPDATING was discouraged.

As for 2017Q4 the sad story is ports-secteam@ seems to be blatantly
understaffed. Many my gecko@ changes weren't approved, so I gave up.



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