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ChrisJumper
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 Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:43 pm Post subject: Firefox 16.0.1? Reasons for the late arrival? |
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Hi,
anyone knew why the firefox 16.0.1 isn't in Portage yet? I googled for some Version-Bumps-Bugs at bugs.gentoo.org but it seems that these threads are deleted after some days. Since there are some security issues which are fixed in firefox 16.0.1 i would love to update.
If it takes some more days ill try do "create" an firefox-bin update myself or just download the Version from the homepage, to run this before it arrive in portage.
Whats hold up the maintainer to release it?
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jdhore
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: Firefox 16.0.1? Reasons for the late arrival? |
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| ChrisJumper wrote: | Hi,
anyone knew why the firefox 16.0.1 isn't in Portage yet? I googled for some Version-Bumps-Bugs at bugs.gentoo.org but it seems that these threads are deleted after some days. Since there are some security issues which are fixed in firefox 16.0.1 i would love to update.
If it takes some more days ill try do "create" an firefox-bin update myself or just download the Version from the homepage, to run this before it arrive in portage.
Whats hold up the maintainer to release it?
Regards
Chris |
I'm the firefox-bin maintainer (effectively, look at the ChangeLog). I have been "devaway" for the past 2 months or so because i've started a new job and been moving. I am planning to deal with all my packages (including firefox-bin) later this week or over the weekend. |
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Nope. That version was pulled by Mozilla. 16.0.1 is the replacement.
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ulenrich
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Firefox 16.0.1? Reasons for the late arrival? |
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| jdhore wrote: | | I have been "devaway" for the past 2 months or so because i've started a new job and been moving. I am planning to deal with all my packages (including firefox-bin) later this week or over the weekend. |
Very thanks for this feedback! This is appreciated by us forum users.
(I just thought, is Gentoo being abandoned by many maintainers ?)
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ChrisJumper
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you jdhore its ok. Best wishes for your moving. I asked out of curiosity. |
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tabanus
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: Firefox 16.0.1? Reasons for the late arrival? |
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| jdhore wrote: | | I'm the firefox-bin maintainer (effectively, look at the ChangeLog). I have been "devaway" for the past 2 months or so because i've started a new job and been moving. I am planning to deal with all my packages (including firefox-bin) later this week or over the weekend. |
Thanks for the info, good to know it's on its way now.
But.. shouldn't an internet-facing app like Firefox be re-assigned if the maintainer is away for a prolonged period? It's about 10 days now since 16.0.1 and 10.0.8 were released and they're still not in portage.
On my 32 bit machines I just use the official binary downloaded from Mozilla's website now, and let it update itself, Windows style. Looks like crap on 64 bit though, so still using portage for it.
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Overlay "wbrana" has a functioning firefox-bin-16.0.1.ebuild
Runs without problems here !
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