backport patches for RC 1.8.1.5 release

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed Jul 18 19:44:39 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 02:06:48PM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:24:50PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > (Sorry, for the duplicate post ... the other went accidentially to
> > wrong thread)
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:42:35PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > as you might know security updates will roll quick, so I prepared
> > > a patchset that contains backports for fixes that have not been landed
> > > in 1.8.0 cvs. The contained fixes are those targetted for the next
> > > "distribution-release".
> > 
> > Note:
> > patch for 199088 ... makes seamonkey fail to build.
> > 
> > mozilla hasn't backported this yet and it is more or less just a
> > theoretical issue for now  ... so removing should be safe. I will
> > try to push an updated patch asap (hope to do this tomorrow).
> > 
> 
> OK, I uploaded a new patchset for our 1.8.0 branches:
> 
>   http://people.debian.org/~asac/1.8.0.13~prepatches070716a.tar.gz
> 
> Changes against previous patches are:
> 
> 1. drops the patch for 199088 as mozilla doesn't even announce it as a
> security issue.
> 2. updates patch bz358594.patch to build cleanly even with old gcc
> compilers.
> 3. adds use-old-upstreamversion.patch to series file which ensures old
> versionstrings aka version.txt and milestone.txt to be 1.8.0.12 and 1.5.0.12
> 
> Eventually upstream landed 387403.tbird.patch as of yesterday
> ... so if you start with a fresh MOZILLA_1_8_0_BRANCH checkout now,
> you might want to remove that patch from series file before you quilt
> push -a.
> 
> I will upload a new orig.tar.gz which we can use to build iceweasel
> to http://people.ubuntu.com/~asac/dapper-moz-backports/ the version
> will be firefox-1.5.0.13~prepatch070716.
> 
> If you want me to do the iceweasel upload let me know. I can do that
> tomorrow then.

That's for old-stable, right ?

Mike



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