[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-08-25, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Grant Edwards<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:

>> Were firefox 3.5.2 and xulrunner 1.9.1.2 marked as stable last
>> week and then changed back to unstable this week?
>
> I think so, yes. If you read the Changelog file, it shows this:
>
>   21 Aug 2009; Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
>   mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r1.ebuild:
>   revert all stable keywords
>
>   20 Aug 2009; Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
>   mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r1.ebuild:
>   Stable for HPPA (bug #280393).
>
>   20 Aug 2009; Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
>   mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r1.ebuild:
>   stable x86, security bug 280393

I forgot about the ebuild changelog file -- I knew I should
have been able to figure this out somehow.  It was the
afternoon/night of the 20th that they got upgraded.  Heck, the
packages were probably back to unstable before the all of
builds finished.

For other packages I wouldn't care much, but flipping back and
forth between "semi-major" versions of firefox/xulrunner is
both fairly disruptive and takes hours and hours of build-time.

I guess I'll leave them as-is for a while.  Firefox 3.5 is
noticably snappier, and downgrading them will take all evening.

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