W dniu 08.10.2011 23:43, Christoph Wickert pisze: > Since Mozilla switched to the new rapid release model, Firefox in Fedora > is no longer fun: Every 6 weeks a new major version hits our stable > release and breaks Firefox horribly: > * My favorite extensions (and actually the only thing that keeps > me using FF) stop working. In the last 7 weeks I had to pitch in > three times and update packages to get things working again. > Sometimes there is not even an update available upstream. > * Firefox falls back to English as there is no language pack > provided. I have to go go the FTP server and download and > install the XPI file manually. > > We have ratified very strict guidelines for updates in the stable > releases and we allow one of the critical path applications to break > this hard? > > So what can we do to improve the situation? > 1. Can we bring back the language packs as part of the packages? > 2. Can the FF maintainers make sure that all maintainers of > extensions get notified of changes *before* release of a new > package? > 3. Can someone (I'm looking at you, QA) make sure all extensions > are still compatible? > > More ideas or suggestions? > > Regards, > Christoph > I never had any langpack problems - my firefox runs nicely in Polish. When it comes to extensions, I don't see a point of packaging them anymore. IIRC in the past x86_64 builds were an issue, but this seems no longer to be the case. As such, I am using TB/FF extension management system. Julian -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
