Mozilla-based and related packages status

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Mon Jan 15 12:32:17 CET 2007


tags 403071 sarge
thanks

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:17:30PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:

> Just to give you a status for the packages I'm the most aware of:

> - iceape is at 1.0.7-2 in an almost releaseable state. At least, it is
>   (I think) in a migratable state. You may want to increase the delay
>   for migration to 20 days like for wesnoth. Anyways, there will be
>   fixes (like one for the postinst of mozilla-browser that is actually a
>   postrm) that will need to be in etch, but I'll collect more of these
>   fixes before actually releasing something new.

>   It has an RC bug (#403071), but it applies to mozilla-mailnews in
>   sarge, and is not even reproducible by the reporter himself. You may
>   want to tag it etch-ignore.

Hmm, let's tag it 'sarge' instead unless someone shows otherwise.

> - iceweasel has 2 RC bugs: #404733, which I intend to fix this week-end
>   if I have enough time for it, and #405592, which sounds like a typical
>   flash plugin crash, and may be downgraded as soon as we figure out.

>   It also has some few issues I'd like to have fixed, but that won't be
>   a huge diff for you to review.

We're now down to 1 RC bug it seems, but this is still outstanding.  I had
heard  from other members of the release team that an upload was expected
this weekend, but that appears not to have happened.  Since there seems to
be a consensus that iceweasel should not ship /usr/lib/firefox, and this bug
blocks a significant fraction of the remaining RC bugfixes for etch, I'm
going to go ahead with preparing an NMU for this against the current
unstable now.

> - xulrunner has 2 RC bugs that I'll fix this week-end. I don't know if
>   #405062 applies to stable libnspr4. Well, it does apply, but I don't
>   know if there are other packages that provide setuid or setgid
>   programs using it. I'm also going to make quite some modifications to
>   the iconv support.

Unfortunately this RC bugfix upload was a new upstream version with an
extensive diff, and the new version FTBFS on alpha with a timeout where the
old version did not.  I'm still in the process of determining if this is a
regression in xulrunner, or if it's a regression in the toolchain since the
last time xulrunner was built on alpha.

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