Am Sonntag, den 09.10.2011, 11:34 +0200 schrieb drago01: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Christoph Wickert > <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > Which extensions are you talking about? The ones I use never caused an > such issues. For example mozilla-adblockplus or chatzilla, also German language packs or dictionaries. > > * 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. > > Something is broken on your system. > rpm -qV firefox should tell you that. rpm's verify gives no output, so everything is ok. Even if I create a new firefox profile I have the same problem. > > So what can we do to improve the situation? > > 1. Can we bring back the language packs as part of the packages? > > They are already there. Indeed, they are there, but stopped working at some point. At least for me. > > 2. Can the FF maintainers make sure that all maintainers of > > extensions get notified of changes *before* release of a new > > package? > > Which maintainers are you talking about? Packaged extensions or > upstream extension maintainers? Packaged extensions of course, notifying upstream doesn't make much sense. > > 3. Can someone (I'm looking at you, QA) make sure all extensions > > are still compatible? > > That's already one of the test cases but you can't expect people to > test every extension in the world. No, but the packaged ones. It is the FF maintainers duty to notify extension maintainers in advance [1]. If they are proven packagers they could also fix the extensions themselves. If not they should apply for co-maintainership. Regards, Christoph [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Notify_others_of_changes_that_may_affect_their_packages -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
