mozilla dependencies and versioned conflicts

[Alexander Sack]

Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> This time, the version update is supposed to be security only, and not
> to break stuff. Thus, theorically, just changing the Conflicts: in the
> control file is enough to have these programs depending on
> mozilla-browser be able to use the security fix release.
> 
> Note that I didn't follow 1.7.8 release, so I'm just assuming from
> theory, maybe 1.7.8 broke stuff...
> 

AFAIK, mozilla.org is not planning to do anything than security fixes on the
1.7.x  and 1.0.x branch of mozilla/firefox,thunderbird. All features and bug
fixes should go the the HEAD development branch again. So maybe it is indeed
safe to set the depends to <1.8/<1.1?

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