On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 05:01:32PM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> Alternatively, rather than block the updates, at least leave the last
> working version in the repository so that users can downgrade to
> something more recent. Right now it looks like F26 users can either
> accept Firefox 57 and live without their addons, or downgrade to 54;
> why not continue making 56 available for users who want it? As far as
> I know DNF is capable of handling such scenarios, although maybe there
> are other parts of the infrastructure that make this difficult.
Should the Firefox 57 package Obsolete those add-on packages which
it... makes obsolete?
I understand what you're saying there... but that puts the onus on the Firefox maintainer
to keep track of people who decided to package addons. The respective maintainers of these
addon packages need to step up and do what is required. This change has been 2 years in the
making. If they maintained an addon package, they should have known.
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