1826540 - deb: Write a blog post to announce the Nightly package is ready

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, task, P3)

Description

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Discussed with :pascalc. After QA is done testing the nightly .deb package (in QA-1829), we should get feedback from nightly users. To do so, :pascalc suggested we write a short blog post on blog.nightly.mozilla.org. There, we should provide the instructions to get the APT repo set up.

Then, the next step is to publish the link to the blog post on social media.

Comment 1

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

One more thing suggested by :pascalc: this blog post should also document how to migrate from Mozilla's .tar.gz archive to .deb. On top of my head, there shouldn't be a lot of steps, but I'm writing it down to remind ourselves if there's any.

Comment 2

[Gabriel Bustamante [:gabriel]]

These are the commands to install a nightly package from our repository. In this example I am installing firefox-nightly-l10n-fr that is the fr langpack.

curl https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://packages.mozilla.org/apt apt main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-nightly firefox-nightly-l10n-fr

I tried this on Ubuntu 20.04. On more recent versions of Ubuntu I get a warning saying:

apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead

Dropping this link here, so I don’t forget https://itsfoss.com/apt-key-deprecated/

Comment 3

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Blog post is out there! https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/10/30/introducing-mozillas-firefox-nightly-deb-packages-for-debian-based-linux-distributions/. Closing bug.