[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

Thu Jun 23 22:12:46 CEST 2011

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 23 June 2011 07:58, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> 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
+>>
+>
+> Got a link to a thread on -dev ML / irc meeting log / <insert your
+> favourite communication method here>, where this was decided?
+>
+
+i told iirc so this is something i recall not something i tell it must be done.
+
+i think the most important part of my sentence is the last part but
+maybe you didn't read it ...
+
+>> 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
+>>
+>
+>
+>
+> --
+> Ahmad Samir
+>
+