782200 - B2G Desktop Builds: Please provide Ubuntu-compatible .deb packages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: GonkIntegration, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Steps to reproduce:
1) Load http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

Actual results:
No .deb packages.

Expected results:
Expected to see Ubuntu-compatible .deb packages that have the right metadata to add an apt repo for updates upon installation.

Comment 1

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

We don't have these for desktop firefox, and that's designed to be used as a desktop platform.

Packaging B2G, which is really for developers, doesn't seem like it'd be a high priority.  There is a lot of infrastructure that's required for the updates.

I'm marking this as WONTFIX, but when Firefox has .deb packages, we can re-evaluate providing them for B2G

Comment 2

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

(In reply to John Ford [:jhford] -- please use 'needinfo?' instead of a CC from comment #1)
> Packaging B2G, which is really for developers, doesn't seem like it'd be a
> high priority.

Unless we want more people developing for B2G.

> I'm marking this as WONTFIX, but when Firefox has .deb packages, we can
> re-evaluate providing them for B2G

For Firefox itself, people get .debs from their distro, so there's less reason for Mozilla to provide .debs for Firefox itself.