[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

[Dexter Morgan]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Thierry Vignaud
<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 June 2011 19:41, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
>>> Well, it's quite possible that we have to include that in Mageia 1 as
>>> well, as this will be security update for Firefox 4. If we don't want to
>>> patch every CVE then we have to include it into Mageia 1 as well..
>>>
>>>
>> Would be nice to know, if this is planned?
>>
>> I have rebuild FF5 here locally for Mageia 1, and the only addons that i
>> lost is
>> Linkification, but that is merely due to it's developers who already messed
>> up
>> with FF4. They don't offer the proper update on Firefox Addons site.
>>
>> So, please, what about Firefox 5 for Mageia 1 as an update (backport?)
>
> Humm, MGA is stricter than MDV and refuses to backport packages
> directly from cauldron:
>
> mgarepo submit --define section=core/backports -t 1 </dev/null
> Submitting xulrunner at revision 110647
> URL: svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages/cauldron/xulrunner
> error: command failed: ssh pkgsubmit.mageia.org
> /usr/local/bin/submit_package -t 1 --define
> sid=4845bffd-7f94-4c8c-931e-cfb746d01a0d --define
> section=core/backports -r 110647
> svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages/cauldron/xulrunner
> error: svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages/cauldron/xulrunner is not
> allowed for this target
>

yes it needs to go to backports_testing before iirc

But i think sec team need to speak of FF5 first because i think this
will be a candidate for updates regarding new firefox upstream policy