Latest Thunderbird and Firefox for SUSE?

Shriramana Sharma

1 Dec 2005 1 Dec '05

01:29

Firefox 1.5 Final is released. I hope we will soon have a SUSE RPM to upgrade. Thunderbird 1.07 was released long ago but the SUSE FTP folders have only the 1.06 version. I presume the SUSE developers will release a SUSE RPM soon after the 1.5 Final version is released (- currently 1.5RC1 is out). Shriramana.

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Philipp Thomas

1 Dec 1 Dec

02:38

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On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 06:59:06 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Firefox 1.5 Final is released. I hope we will soon have a SUSE RPM to upgrade.

You know about /pub/projects/mozilla on ftp.suse.com and its mirrors? There's where our mozilla maintainer puts new packages of firebird thunderbird and sunbird. Philipp

Wolfgang Rosenauer

07:01

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Hi, On 2005-12-01 at 06:59:06 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote (shortened):

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Firefox 1.5 Final is released. I hope we will soon have a SUSE RPM to upgrade.

Packages are underway to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/ Release notes: - plugin inclusion mechanism has changed (if you encounter problems in that area please contact me)

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Thunderbird 1.07 was released long ago but the SUSE FTP folders have only the 1.06 version. I presume the SUSE developers will release a SUSE RPM soon after the 1.5 Final version is released (- currently 1.5RC1 is out).

When 1.5 will be released I will provide packages on ftp.suse.com. (This will most likely happen in January) CU, Wolfgang -- SUSE LINUX GmbH -o) Tel: +49-(0)911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstr. 5 /\\ Fax: +49-(0)911-740 53 679 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v simply change to www.suse.com

Marcus Cooper

08:50

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On 01/12/05, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:

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Hi,

When 1.5 will be released I will provide packages on ftp.suse.com. (This will most likely happen in January)

CU,

Wolfgang

Would 1.5 be deemed a security patch as well and therefore delivered by YOU? You might have already answered this with your above comment but I'm not sure how the fpt site relates to YOU. Thanks Marcus -- Photos : www.flickr.com/photos/marcusc Blog : marcusbrain.blogspot.com

Marcus Meissner

08:56

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:50:10AM +0000, Marcus Cooper wrote:

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On 01/12/05, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:

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Hi,

When 1.5 will be released I will provide packages on ftp.suse.com. (This will most likely happen in January)

CU,

Wolfgang

Would 1.5 be deemed a security patch as well and therefore delivered by YOU?

No. We will provide security patches from the 1.0.x branch as long as it is maintained.

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You might have already answered this with your above comment but I'm not sure how the fpt site relates to YOU.

It does not relate. Ciao, Marcus

Marcus Cooper

11:21

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On 01/12/05, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:50:10AM +0000, Marcus Cooper wrote:

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Would 1.5 be deemed a security patch as well and therefore delivered by YOU?

No. We will provide security patches from the 1.0.x branch as long as it is maintained.

do you know how long the 1.0.x branch is going to be maintained? What will happen when it stopped being maintained? Will 1.5.x go into YOU? The reason behind my questions are if new users of SUSE 10 are going to be kept on v1.0.x (and yes I know 1.5.x will be easily installed from adding the yast source, i assume) it might be used as a critism. Mind you 10.1 (which will I assume include 1.5.x) will be out soon so I think I'm making a moutain out of a molehill.

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You might have already answered this with your above comment but I'm not sure how the fpt site relates to YOU.

It does not relate.

I assume it still wouldn't relate even if I had spelt ftp correctly ;) thanks for your answers Marcus have fun Marcus -- Photos : www.flickr.com/photos/marcusc Blog : marcusbrain.blogspot.com

Marcus Meissner

11:38

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:21:08AM +0000, Marcus Cooper wrote:

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On 01/12/05, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:50:10AM +0000, Marcus Cooper wrote:

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Would 1.5 be deemed a security patch as well and therefore delivered by YOU?

No. We will provide security patches from the 1.0.x branch as long as it is maintained.

do you know how long the 1.0.x branch is going to be maintained? What will happen when it stopped being maintained? Will 1.5.x go into YOU?

I do not know how long it will be maintained. When it stops being maintained we will be forced to the upgrade to 1.5.

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The reason behind my questions are if new users of SUSE 10 are going to be kept on v1.0.x (and yes I know 1.5.x will be easily installed from adding the yast source, i assume) it might be used as a critism. Mind you 10.1 (which will I assume include 1.5.x) will be out soon so I think I'm making a moutain out of a molehill.

Why? The products are meant to stay stable and only get security and bugfixes. Adding version upgrades for packages would reduce our resources for new products which would hurt those... If you want bleeding edge software our package maintainers offer packages (Mozilla, Apache, wine, etc.), newer desktops are in the supplemental branches (GNOME, KDE) or if you want an all bleeding edge SUSE, use the Factory branch. Ciao, marcus

Marcus Cooper

11:52

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On 01/12/05, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:21:08AM +0000, Marcus Cooper wrote:

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do you know how long the 1.0.x branch is going to be maintained? What will happen when it stopped being maintained? Will 1.5.x go into YOU?

I do not know how long it will be maintained. When it stops being maintained we will be forced to the upgrade to 1.5.

ok thanks

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The reason behind my questions are if new users of SUSE 10 are going to be kept on v1.0.x (and yes I know 1.5.x will be easily installed from adding the yast source, i assume) it might be used as a critism. Mind you 10.1 (which will I assume include 1.5.x) will be out soon so I think I'm making a moutain out of a molehill.

Why? The products are meant to stay stable and only get security and bugfixes.

Adding version upgrades for packages would reduce our resources for new products which would hurt those...

If you want bleeding edge software our package maintainers offer packages (Mozilla, Apache, wine, etc.), newer desktops are in the supplemental branches (GNOME, KDE) or if you want an all bleeding edge SUSE, use the Factory branch.

Yep you're right. And seeing as adding yast sources is really not hard, people can do that. have fun Marcus -- Photos : www.flickr.com/photos/marcusc Blog : marcusbrain.blogspot.com

Trey Sizemore

22:16

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On Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:38PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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Why? The products are meant to stay stable and only get security and bugfixes.

Adding version upgrades for packages would reduce our resources for new products which would hurt those...

If you want bleeding edge software our package maintainers offer packages (Mozilla, Apache, wine, etc.), newer desktops are in the supplemental branches (GNOME, KDE) or if you want an all bleeding edge SUSE, use the Factory branch.

Ciao, marcus

What is the Factory branch? -- Cheers, Trey ---- To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D. -- B. Duggan Linux chameleon 2.6.13-15-default i686 GNU/Linux 5:15pm up 9:31, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.29

Anders Johansson

22:25

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On Thursday 01 December 2005 23:16, Trey Sizemore wrote:

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On Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:38PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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Why? The products are meant to stay stable and only get security and bugfixes.

Adding version upgrades for packages would reduce our resources for new products which would hurt those...

If you want bleeding edge software our package maintainers offer packages (Mozilla, Apache, wine, etc.), newer desktops are in the supplemental branches (GNOME, KDE) or if you want an all bleeding edge SUSE, use the Factory branch.

Ciao, marcus

What is the Factory branch?

http://www.opensuse.org/Factory_Distribution

Pete Connolly

22:26

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On Thursday 01 December 2005 22:16, Trey Sizemore wrote:

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On Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:38PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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Why? The products are meant to stay stable and only get security and bugfixes.

Adding version upgrades for packages would reduce our resources for new products which would hurt those...

If you want bleeding edge software our package maintainers offer packages (Mozilla, Apache, wine, etc.), newer desktops are in the supplemental branches (GNOME, KDE) or if you want an all bleeding edge SUSE, use the Factory branch.

Ciao, marcus

What is the Factory branch?

Hi Trey There's a good outline here.. http://www.opensuse.org/Factory_Distribution In summary, "The Factory Distribution is the current state of the development for the next SUSE Linux distribution". The cutting edge code. Here be Dragons! Cheers Pete

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