.deb: Cannot browse https://packages.mozilla.org/apt
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(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement, P3)
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(Reporter: jlorenzo, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
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Reported by :julienw, :gerard-majax, :jcristau.
https://packages.mozilla.org/apt returns a 404 which breaks some user expectations. In the Debian environment, users are able to manually browse the content of an APT repository. In its current state, packages.mozilla.org just provides direct access links. E.g.: https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/dists/mozilla/InRelease
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Comment 1•1 year ago
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All the .deb packages are available for download on the archive: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/
But the GCP APT repo similar to the google chrome APT repository, which only provides direct access links like
https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/InRelease
And shows the same 404 page on https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/
Some of the other examples I checked out, like Spotify and Terraform, weren't brows-able either.
VSCode is in a nice brows-able repository. So it seemed like it could go either way.
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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We could return a Mozilla 404 since we handle the HTTP requests to the repository.
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Updated•1 year ago
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Updated•1 year ago
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Comment 3•1 year ago
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Brave browser redirects the APT repository root to instructions on how to install the browser on different Linux distributions.
The APT URL in the instructions: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/
Redirects people to instructions on how to install .deb packages: https://brave.com/linux/
We could potentially redirect the repository root to our knowledge base (or some content explaining the repository and what products are in it.)
Since it's impossible to see the repo, what's the way to check when you'll add beta and stable versions of packages if you plan to?
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Comment 5•1 year ago
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We are announcing the beta soon. Stable is in the works. You could follow Bug 1864958 and Bug 1825886.
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