USN-186-1 (mozilla, mozilla-firefox) updates broken on Hoary

[John Dong]

It certainly did happen, ogra. It's just that there are still a significant
number of packages that didn't pass the more rigorous requirements imposed
by the movement to official, and we still have to provide support for those
in Hoary's world.

On 9/25/05, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2005, 16:11 +0200 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> > The security update is fine, the problem is that you use backports,
> > which are screwed up in Hoary. They renamed the package
> > "mozilla-firefox" to "firefox" without doing a proper transition, so
> > you now ended up with having both packages installed, which is bogus.
> what bothers me most is that we all agreed that the official backports
> (with exclusion of hoary-extras) would be shut down as soon as the
> backports team gets free server space, free bandwith and and option to
> use the build infrastructure for the backports to make them official.
>
> why didnt that happen ? its very odd since it occupies a lot of
> developer time for unnecessary support (which seemingly does not exist
> for the inofficial backports) three weeks before breezy release, this
> time would better have been spent fixing bugs in breezy.
>
> ciao
> oli
>
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