[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

Thu Jun 23 07:58:13 CEST 2011

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
+