rebuilding galeon and/or Miro (was Re: firefox-2.0.0.8 Upgrade Problems in F7)

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Thu Oct 25 14:11:24 UTC 2007


Alex Lancaster wrote:
>>>>>> "AL" == Alex Lancaster  writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> AL> If the maintainer doesn't respond reasonably quickly, other
> AL> maintainers could be permitted to step up to the bat to rebuild
> AL> the broken apps against the new firefox themselves.
> 
> AL> This would be preferable rather than let those maintainers
> AL> (galeon, Miro etc.) discover them through multiple bugs filed on
> AL> bugzilla and/or user forums or IRC several days later, dragging
> AL> the updating process on, and generating confusion) which seems to
> AL> be what tends to happen.
> 
> In the interests of getting these security updates up quickly, I'm
> taking the liberty to rebuild galeon against the new firefox (I've had
> a fair bit of experience rebuilding this application before) .  I'm
> currently doing a scratch build in koji, let me know if this isn't OK
> with anyone.

Thanks Alex,




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