firefox 1.5

[John Dong]

It's still in consideration whether or not it'll happen. Right now, there's
a forum sticky in which I'm documenting my progress towards doing it.

Currently, around 50 source packages depend on firefox and will likely
require rebuilding. In addition, whether or not security updates can be
assured is unclear.

I'm providing EXPERIMENTAL packages at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125877&package_id=171041for
the impatient early testers. I'm uploading source packages too but
that
takes so damn long... (compiled with no modifications except changelog).
Currently, the locale packages don't install anymore after doing this, and
several programs (in the big list of apt-get rdepends) segfault without a
rebuild.


A Firefox 1.5 backport is certainly possible, but it'll be a struggle and a
lot more thought is required before recklessly pushing the backport button
:)

On 12/1/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot at hot.pl> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> ulrich steffens:
>
> > since firefox 1.5 was released earlier this
> > week, will there be a backport for firefox?
>
> Most probably - no. There are too many components depending on Firefox.
>
> For example, I've rebuilt Dapper's 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-1ubuntu3 for my
> Breezy install and Firefox works as a browser, but the System | Help is
> broken (most probably Yelp needs a rebuild against the new firefox-dev).
>
> Cheers,
> -- Shot
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