2015-08-12 9:14 GMT-06:00 Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:11:39PM -0400, Gary Gatling wrote:
I realize we have our guidelines and we're not Debian, Suse or
Ubuntu...
and that's a good thing. But, if we're making exceptions for Firefox because of it's popularity shouldn't we do the same for Chromium.
I agree with Gerald. If there are exceptions for firefox due to
popularity
then chromium deserves the same bundling exceptions. Otherwise we are not being fair.
It's important to note that "popularity" is not the sole reason for exceptions for Firefox. Overall, everyone should review the existing discussion in the guidelines about bundling exceptions and consider how this might fit in (possibly including revisions if they make sense):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Some_reasons_y...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Forks_of_packa...
Here say:
"firefox has a temporary bundling exception since it has an active security team tracking issues in their codebase. icecat has a temporary exception since it is a fork of firefox that closely tracks firefox's changes. We'll re-evaluate this before F22."
Maybe will be a good time to look at Chromium too