M.I.A. Firefox 3.0 RC1

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:59:16AM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > RC2 was uploaded to hardy-proposed on 10 June.
> 
> And again, somewhat ironically, RC3 came out the very next day.

According to our Firefox maintainer:

  <asac> pitti: rc2 == final. the bits in -proposed is RC2 aka final
  <asac> they did RC3 only for mac issues and didnt even respin the binaries for final
  <asac> (on linux and windows)

> What is the ETA for RC2 to move from -proposed to -updates?
> 
> FF 3.0 final is due on Tuesday from Mozilla.
> 
> What is the timeline for that?  Will RC3 just be skipped to save some time?

See Alexander's blog post, indicating that it may be possible to do it
on the same day but it depends (of course) on successful verification of
the packages in -proposed:

  http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/140-Firefox-3-to-be-released-next-week-Tue,-Jun-17.html

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]