xulrunner and silent breakage of downstream apps

[Christopher Aillon]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
> 
> xulrunner was suppose to stop this from happening with a stable api.

XULRunner provides both a stable and unstable API.  Things aren't going 
to magically be fixed until the applications actually start *using* the 
stable API.