galeon orphaned (was Re: downgrading mozilla)

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Aug 9 19:56:58 UTC 2005


> There's no safe way of downgrading AFAIK.  apt-get can do it
> (freshrpms have apt-enabled Extras repositories):
> 
> apt-get install mozilla=<version-goes-here>
> 
> But yum doesn't AFAIK.
> 
> However it appears that Dams has now dropped galeon support for Fedora
> Extras, see:
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/164344
> 
> So unless somebody picks up maintainership, it looks like there will
> be no more galeon in FE :-(
> 
> Any takers?  If nobody steps up I might try and negotiate my way
> through the thicket of Fedora Extras paperwork/setup and become a
> contributor.
> 

I'm not taking over galeon but I did change the spec file in such a way
that it should be able to get through the buildsys.


-sv





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