Firefox... automatic updates

[David Curtis]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:28:54 -0700
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 10/23/2009 04:34 PM, David Curtis wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:10:01 -0400
> > slowertraffickeepright at mail.com wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >>  David, I'm just not sure what you are telling me...? 
> > 
> > What I'm saying is going from 3.0 to 3.5 is _not_ a trivial update,
> > it is a migration, it requires you to make certain decisions due to
> > the fact that with add-ons, plug-ins, and other FF customizations
> > that may not traverse a 3.0 to 3.5 upgrade, an automatic update
> > would be hazardous without human intervention.
> > 
> > You wouldn't want to do an upgrade and find out FF doesn't work or
> > loses some functionality without knowing why would you?
> > 
> > With that said, if you install 3.5 from the repos, the first time
> > you run it, it will try to get as many settings from your 3.0
> > install as possible, you must be in front of your computer to
> > participate in this process. IIRC, it should tell you if add-ons
> > installed for 3.0 will not work with 3.5 and also if they are not
> > available for 3.5.
> > 
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> 
> You seemed to have missed the point that 3.5 is in the _universe_
> repositories vs the main repositories. Regardless of the changes from
> 3.0 to 3.5, you _won't_ get an automatic update from a main package
> to a universe package unless the universe package is moved to main
> first.

It wouldn't even matter if it was in main, the package names are
different...

I'm giving the OP a reason, aside from Ubuntu policy, that 3.5 should
be a separate install and not an update.

Dave