Firefox-stable & Thunderbird-stable

[Micah Gersten]

On 04/10/2010 11:35 AM, John Vivirito wrote:
> 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.

There were some FTBFSs, so, currently, Firefox 3.6.3 is available in 
Firefox Stable PPA for Intrepid -> Karmic.  I don't know when I'll get 
to Hardy, probably after Final Freeze on Thursday.

Micah