[Bug 237518] Re: xulrunner-1.9 accompanying Firefox 3.0RC2 cannot be installed: dependency problems

[Alexander Sack]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 04:37:40AM -0000, Bruce Miller wrote:
> Alexander, I have no wish to indulge in a long argument, but I would
> urge you not to turn aside comments and reports because they come in
> from strangers.
> 
> I bought my first computer in 1982: an Osborne 1A with CP/M 2.2. I have
> years of experience and comfort at a command line. I am not a developer
> and definitely do not "do code"; on the other hand, I like to run the
> absolute latest versions and have the experience to break betas more
> thoroughly than most beta testers and lots of tolerance for and
> experience with the resulting breakage.
> 
> But I felt obliged to report this particular problem, because I had gone
> as far as I was comfortable with "sudo dpkg -i force-<foo>", but could
> not install one of the "rc" packages that I was trying to test without
> risking more generalized system breakage than made sense.

I love to get feedback from experienced users. For non-official
packages you should use the mailing list and the irc channel to get
them to our attention. We publish those to get early feedback, so we
will be happy to receive such feedback. Just try to keep it out of the
bug system :).

> 
> BTW, this evening I brought in the latest build of xulrunner-1.9
> (1.9~rc2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~fta5~hardy) and am pleased to report that it
> upgraded without conflict or any other incident (except for a post-
> install glitch in evolution which depends on yelp which depends on
> xulrunner-1.9, but that is far too remote from what we are discussing
> :-) ).

What issue are you seeing with evolution upgrade/postinst?

 - Alexander

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xulrunner-1.9 accompanying Firefox 3.0RC2 cannot be installed: dependency problems
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