On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. The later works for me No idea about chatzilla. Adblock plus (the upstream version) works for me. >> > * 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. Odd. >> > 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. Sounds like some kind of bug you implied that they where removed "no language pack provided" and "bring them back" which isn't the case. So file a bug please. >> > 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. That just reminds me while packing firefox extensions is not a good idea. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
