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NotSoPrivate

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[SOLVED] Iceweasel missing

Hello guys.
So, today i searched for iceweasel in AUR Web interface and in cower and couldn't find it. I use it as my main browser and was looking for an update, but instead i'm surprised by it's apparent absence. I tried searching for news here on the forums and found nothing.

Will the package come back again? Or was it purged from AUR for any reason(on purpose)?

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graysky

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Re: [SOLVED] Iceweasel missing

So, today i searched for iceweasel in AUR Web interface and in cower and couldn't find it.

Why would you expect to find a Debian-branded piece of software in the Arch User Repo?

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NotSoPrivate

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Re: [SOLVED] Iceweasel missing

So, today i searched for iceweasel in AUR Web interface and in cower and couldn't find it.

Why would you expect to find a Debian-branded piece of software in the Arch User Repo?

Well, it just was until yesterday i think... I expected it to be there yet. Also the maintainer was planning on using the parabola's builds instead, not sure if it would mean change on naming/branding.

Anyway, could branding have anything to do with Iceweasel not being on AUR anymore, then?

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Iceweasel missing

How long have you had it installed?  Was it from before the transition to AUR 4?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … the_AUR.3F

Edit: We we were posting at the same time

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NotSoPrivate

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Re: [SOLVED] Iceweasel missing

How long have you had it installed?  Was it from before the transition to AUR 4?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … the_AUR.3F

Edit: We we were posting at the same time

IIRC, yes. I'm using it for a long time now, and can't precisely recall when first installed it, but it was before the AUR transition. About rules of submission, the only thing i think maybe could be a problem is that in the last update there was a dependency conflict between it and libvpx. But probably not something that breaks the rules.

Edit:Looked in /var/log/pacman.log and actually in my actual install of Arch, i first installed iceweasel one month after the transition to git.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Iceweasel missing

Iceweasel is no more

I could try to write a PKGBUILD for xul-ext-iceweasel-branding if there's any interest.

Alternatively, use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … -branding/

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brebs

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Re: [SOLVED] Iceweasel missing

To clarify - firefox itself is, finally, in Debian, so there's no need for Debian to have an iceweasel package.

NotSoPrivate

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Re: [SOLVED] Iceweasel missing

Got it, thanks people. I aso liked the iceweasel package because it was an easy way to get a native "mtuned" own build of Firefox. Will get it through other way now. I actually knew the Debian thing but i thought that the maintaner would be getting the parabola src, as i saw in the comments section of the AUR package then, and as it continued to be updated i didn't even mind the ESR thing. Seems like the new ESR Firefox got it's way into Debian.