Am 09.10.2011 12:50, schrieb Christoph Wickert: >> 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. use adblockplus from the mozilla-extensions page works fine with FF4,5,6,7 problem is that the packaged extensions for FF/TB are NOT updated as rapidly they should, but this is not a problem of firefox itself >>> 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. seems only affect you because i would cry loud if my FF is no longer in german and i am using the >>> 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. the question is why are the extension-maintainers are not using updates-testing - i see a new ff-build as user at the same time it is built and extensions-maintainers do not look what happening? > 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 in my opinion the maintainers of firefox should also maintain the packed extensions and update/rebuild them at the same time as FF/TB
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