mozilla dependencies and versioned conflicts

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:12:56PM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com> wrote:
> 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?

Only problem being upstream having a bad history of breaking stuff
frequently...

Mike