Bug 1570411 added a --without-fennec flag, but didn't do anything to act on that flag during the build. This ticket tracks doing some of that.

It's possible we just want to delete all this code rather than guarding it, since it's now the 71 cycle, but I started down this path so I'll continue for a while.

GeckoView builds produce artifact for download by Mozilla's regular
consumer audience. It's not clear what, if anything, depends on this
download information, but this is a reasonable way to find out!

This does a few things when --without-fennec:

1. stops producing (and consuming) FennecJNI* JNI wrappers
2. removes the :app and :thirdparty Gradle projects
3. removes relevant pieces of the Gradle target configuration
4. updates lints

Depends on D46535

Depends on D46536

Try builds:

artifact, --without-fennec: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=e3f59dfd6d041ecc636d6035f6d53b28911e8c1c
full, --without-fennec: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=18862015914957b5bbd19e9927a50148509359ae

--with-fennec is busted in automation: I'll need to update the Gradle dependencies. Or get rid of with{out}GeckoBinaries, which isn't really needed after Bug 1550146.

Depends on D46535

Depends on D46536

Depends on D47697

Depends on D47698

Depends on D47699

Depends on D47700

Depends on D47701

Per @snorp's suggestion, I made this tear out (most of) Fennec. I will file some follow-ups as I have energy.

To my reviewers, all of the "TO FOLD" pieces will be collapsed into the main commit, which will land all at once.

To @snorp: I suggest downloading the patch and looking at the diffstat locally. Good luck making sense of anything in Phab :(

A try build with Android N builds, including l10n:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=60f35f7b06fc4e059294b2299c88647486e0331c

A try build with Linux 64 builds, to catch configure errors:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=3f2b3b437e3aa6ff89ed4e44761787b18e346666

It's not clear to me what "signing" a Maven artifact means: doubtless
there's a way to include GPG signatures. But we don't do it at this
time, and these tasks require Fennec APKs, so we remove them.

Depends on D47702

Depends on D47955

Depends on D47956

"Big try build" percolating at https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=af5eb485915d4bc2a29f21e9f4e5ae0d8b2c0632.

Sheriffs: hopefully this sticks -- it's a huge patch, I really don't want to rebase it, etc. Try was basically happy: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=af5eb485915d4bc2a29f21e9f4e5ae0d8b2c0632.

This shouldn't have touched l10n.toml. See conversation in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582218#c1

I'm going to see if sheriffs can land a follow-up reverting this specific change before it merges to m-c
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/diff/1ffe2e3d6e19a351575ac986c43155ed8e8d90bc/mobile/android/locales/l10n.toml

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6f7cf55ea869
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2009acbb8bfa
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1ffe2e3d6e19

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #20)

This shouldn't have touched l10n.toml. See conversation in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582218#c1

I'm going to see if sheriffs can land a follow-up reverting this specific change before it merges to m-c
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/diff/1ffe2e3d6e19a351575ac986c43155ed8e8d90bc/mobile/android/locales/l10n.toml

Sorry, flod: you are right that there was a discussion (in Phab?) but I though I had restricted myself to changes that weren't relevant across trees. Sorry that I didn't get an l10n peer's review, and thanks for filing the follow-up very quickly.