xulrunner and silent breakage of downstream apps

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Fri Jun 20 08:23:15 UTC 2008


Michel Salim wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> The recent push of xulrunner-1.9 and Firefox 3 broke Miro and devhelp
> (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/pending/devhelp-0.19.1-2.fc9)
> again.
> 
> Is there a way to declare these kinds of dependencies that we are not
> using right now? Should Miro and devhelp specifically require xulrunner
> = %{version}-%{release} -- or perhaps a more administrative solution;
> block a non-security release of xulrunner for at least one day and
> automatically notify the maintainers of its dependents?

It broke galeon as well, but this has to be a bug in xulrunner which 
didn't maintain binary compatibility when it was supposed to, no ?




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list