Firefox-stable & Thunderbird-stable

[John Vivirito]

On 04/10/2010 10:15 PM, Micah Gersten wrote:
> 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
> 
Micah thanks for the work you are doing and the
update you posted here :)

-- 
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

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