On 25.04.2016 22:59, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 25.04.2016 um 18:10 schrieb Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas:
Hi,
Em Seg, 2016-04-25 às 16:48 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer escreveu:
The main reason why Thunderbird (and Firefox etc) is updated to more recent versions within an openSUSE distribution is security.
Version 45.0 does not have additional important security fixes which aren't in 38.7.2. Therefore up to now there was no reason to update to 45.0. This will change as soon as there are known security issues which won't be fixed in any upcoming 38.x version.
I think this is true for Leap, but what about Tumbleweed? Is there anything preventing to update Thunderbird to the newest version?
The version argument does not apply for Tumbleweed. But for Tumbleweed there are build issues I haven't sorted out yet. Thunderbird 45 does not build for TW at the moment.
Wolfgang
Phew. I almost sent a disgruntled answer to your previous email about pointlessness of "security" hold ups in supposedly rolling releases until that one came. The idea of such big and important software being artificially frozen by distribution all while Mozilla buries the remains of its credibility is genuinely unsettling. Also, I use my own FF and TB builds and while FF build may have significant changes, TB's spec is changed mostly to link against system libraries as much as possible. Shouldn't official openSUSE's FF and TB builds try to do the same ? It's bad enough that both of them`ship with a copy of fat libxul.so and both try to duplicate SIP-client functionality badly.