Firefox-stable & Thunderbird-stable

[Giles Weaver]

Thanks for the information, and sorry for the slow response - my PSU 
fried and I've only just got around to replacing it...

I've realised that the reason that I wasn't able to see the firefox 
packages in the firefox-stable repository was because I had set Synaptic 
to prefer package versions from Karmic (and not the highest version as 
is the default). I set this after adding the ubuntu-mozilla-daily repo 
(I wanted Tbird 3) either so that Firefox stable wouldn't be upgraded to 
the nightly, or so that the Tbird nightly wouldn't be upgraded daily 
(can't remember which).

Ideally I'd prefer to use a stable version of Thunderbird 3, so once the 
thunderbird-stable repository is up I will stop using the 
ubuntu-mozilla-daily repo. I'm sure that a lot of users feel the same, 
so I'm a bit surprised that Canonical don't officially support 
xxx-stable repos for Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org etc. I really 
appreciate the effort you guys (& gals?) are putting in to bridge the 
gap between the six monthly releases and the bleeding edge.

I see that Thunderbird 3.0.4 has been released, so I'm looking forward 
to the thunderbird-stable repo ;-)

Thanks again,

Giles

On 24/03/10 16:08, Micah Gersten wrote:
> On 03/24/2010 10:37 AM, John Vivirito wrote:
> > On 03/24/2010 06:20 AM, Giles Weaver wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Apologies if I should have posted this question elsewhere, but it 
> wasn't
> >> clear to me how to submit a question to the team.
> >> Firstly, the firefox-stable repository 
> (ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable)
> >> doesn't seem to contain any packages for 64-bit versions of Ubuntu. Is
> >> this correct? Are there any plans to provide 64-bit builds in Firefox-
> >> stable? Should I file 64-bit support under blueprints or bugs?
> >>
> >> Secondly, are there plans to provide an equivalent Thunderbird-stable
> >> repository? I'm sure this would be very popular. Again, should I 
> file a
> >> blueprint and if so where?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Giles Weaver
> > Added mailing list to "replies".
> > Alexander I thought we had 64bit builds or did they fail?
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable/+packages
> >
> > The link above shows 64bit packages you may have to click the arrow 
> next
> > to the package to view the builds.
> >
> > I thought i recall someone saying they were going to make a
> > thunderbird-stable but i dont know who or when :(
> >
> > Alexander do we want to make thunderbird-stable PPA under mozillateam?
> >
>
> The PPA automatically builds i386 and amd64 builds.  As for 
> thunderbird stable, I will probably do this sometime next week after 
> 3.0.4 is released.
>
> Thanks,
> Micah