Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (70 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <stark@xxxxxxx>]

Johan,

On 2006-05-02 at 00:15:35 +0200, Johan N. wrote (shortened):

> I'd like to know who controls the version-numbering of mozilla Firefox
> inside SuSE as it's not quite compatible with what some banks demand despite
> the fact that there was an update via YOU lately :)

I'm the packager. And I guess you are asking why we "only" ship Firefox
1.0.x with older distributions?
 
> I hope I can encourage whoever it is to follow the "official" Mozilla
> Firefox version-numbering because thats where others look. Novell/SuSE is
> not big enough to dictate that yet ;)

Product and project management decides about version upgrades. (And in
some cases maybe the security team if there are no other options)

> Luckily you had a more reasonable version 1 and half months ago in the
> supplementary section of the ftp site but not the smartest way to have
> things done and for some to be able to do some online banking ;)

What is the problem? You say it's not possible to do online banking with
Firefox 1.0.x?

> A browser like Mozilla Firefox should be kept much more "current" than in
> the past.

Frankly, Firefox is one of the few packages which got version upgrades
at all in the past.


Wolfgang Rosenauer

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