Bug 338644 – www-client/firefox-3.6.10 version bump

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Patrizio Bassi 2010-09-25 07:47:46 UTC]

mozilla released version 3.6.10 which addresses a startup crash and Personas Plus compatibility

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2010-09-25 11:36:16 UTC]

Our firefox-3.6.9-r1 package already has these fixes provided by 3.6.10

[Comment 2 Melendro 2010-09-25 16:05:39 UTC]

But firefox-3.6.9-r1 still reports 3.6.9 as its version, which can be a bit confusing for users who know that latest release is 3.6.10

[Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2010-09-26 03:44:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> But firefox-3.6.9-r1 still reports 3.6.9 as its version, which can be a bit
> confusing for users who know that latest release is 3.6.10
> 

For a two patch change, I can not warrant the user being forced to download 40+M of source code. Most users keep the source code around for a while which makes using two patches on 3.6.9 much more realistic. A simple read of the changelog would have made you aware of what each patch does and been more then efficient in allowing a user to determine that the package is actually 3.6.10.

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2010-10-12 08:24:58 UTC]

*** Bug 340633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Michael Buchfink 2010-10-18 08:30:43 UTC]

If you like, you can simply bypass firefox-3.6.9-r1 if you create your own ebuilds xulrunner-1.9.2.10.ebuild and firefox-3.6.10.ebuild in your local repository. A simple copy from xulrunner-1.9.2.9.ebuild and firefox-3.6.9.ebuild worked for me (amd64).

This is the reason why I love to use Gentoo. You are free to do what you want to do.