Re: [gentoo-dev] mozilla-1.41-r3 -- so, problems, but WHY remove the ebuild???

[Brad Laue]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:13, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:37, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> > > OK, I'm dense.  my problem is that 1.4-r3 was
> > > 'KEYWORDS=sparc', but not the only
> > > thing marked
> > > KEYWORDS=sparc is 'mozilla-1.3-r2'
> >
> > it was simply a mistake by the maintainers, 1.4.1 should have a KEYWORD mask
> > to override 1.4-r3 ... you could file a bug or maybe the mozilla maintainers
> > will see it here
> > - -mike
>
> Ok, that's fine.  Thanks for the information.  I just couldn't see why
> we (sparc people) were getting:
> "mozilla-1.4-r3 is too old to keep around, so if you want something
> stable, you have to downgrade to something that's REALLY old."

You could consider testing and reporting on a newer Mozilla ebuild. I'm
not trying to persecute non-x86 architectures, just clean up the pile of
ebuilds.

Mozilla is a major project, I had hoped arch maintainers would be more
responsive to new releases than they have been.

I've replaced 1.4-r3 for now as most of the alternative architectures
have it marked stable, but would like to see 1.5-r1 become the new
stable mozilla version on all architectures.

Brad


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