Firefox-stable & Thunderbird-stable

[John Vivirito]

On 04/09/2010 01:04 AM, Giles Weaver wrote:
> 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
> 
Micah:
From the emails i got sometime over past few days
(dont recall when they were sent) but it seems
they failed to build.

-- 
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

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