Building a Firefox Debian package

It's actually been possible for some time, but I made that simpler recently, and I figured I should mention it.

  • Grab the iceweasel source
    $ apt-get source iceweasel
  • Install its build dependencies
    $ apt-get build-dep iceweasel
  • Build it
    $ cd iceweasel-*
$ PRODUCT_NAME=firefox dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

2014-11-11 11:26:38+0900

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2 Responses to “Building a Firefox Debian package”

  1. Fabian Says:
    2014-11-11 11:55:38+0900

    Maybe add “-us -uc” to the dpkg-buildpackage call, since we are not going to sign the .dsc and .changes files.

  2. Christoph Anton Mitterer Says:
    2014-11-11 17:14:05+0900

    Is the branding ever going to be switched back per default?

    Has the legal situation with Mozilla’s trademark stuff been resolved?

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