Please add PowerPC (and non x86 based binaries) to the mozilla squeeze-backports repository for iceweasel 3.6 and up

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 09/09/2011 09:03 PM, Ian Sidle wrote:
> I can understand not all packages can be listed, but iceweasel/firefox is a linux staple used by just about everyone and a number of websites (gmail/hotmail) are now rejecting browsers older than 3.6. 
> 
> The backport support for non-x86 archs stop at 3.5 and that makes things rather inconvenient if you are running very old equipment.  
> 
> Apple has long ago abandoned support for their powerpc based machines, but with linux I was still able to squeeze some life out of them for those who don't need the latest and greatest (namely the elderly). 

I also have access to a lot of powerpc machines that could really use
the latest versions of these packages.  I can understand that Mike
Hommey already does a herculean job maintaining just the i386 and amd64
archives of all of the various versions of iceweasel.

Mike, if i was to contribute a powerpc machine as something like a
buildd for mozilla.debian.net, would you be willing to host these
packages on the public archive?

I've never maintained an official debian buildd, but i suspect i could
manually handle backported rebuilds of the -release branch.  I'd be even
more inclined to do that work if i knew that the fruits of my labor
could be easily used by other people, e.g. by re-using the
mozilla.debian.net distribution infrastructure.

Any interest?

	--dkg

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