Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2005, 11:53 -0500 schrieb John Dong: > It's still in consideration whether or not it'll happen. Right now, > there's a forum sticky in which I'm documenting my progress towards > doing it. > > Currently, around 50 source packages depend on firefox and will likely > require rebuilding. In addition, whether or not security updates can > be assured is unclear. > > I'm providing EXPERIMENTAL packages at > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125877&package_id=171041 > for the impatient early testers. I'm uploading source packages too but that > takes so damn long... (compiled with no modifications except changelog). > Currently, the locale packages don't install anymore after doing this, and > several programs (in the big list of apt-get rdepends) segfault without a > rebuild. > > > A Firefox 1.5 backport is certainly possible, but it'll be a struggle > and a lot more thought is required before recklessly pushing the > backport button :) > > On 12/1/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > ulrich steffens: > > > since firefox 1.5 was released earlier this > > week, will there be a backport for firefox? > > Most probably - no. There are too many components depending on > Firefox. > > For example, I've rebuilt Dapper's 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-1ubuntu3 > for my > Breezy install and Firefox works as a browser, but the System > | Help is > broken (most probably Yelp needs a rebuild against the new > firefox-dev). > > Cheers, > -- Shot > -- thanks for the answers! i'm not that much of a 'break my ubuntu' guy, so maybe I'll just stick with a vmware-ubuntu and experiment a bit. fortunately there was a german computermagazine which had a 1 year license for vmware featured on one of the attached cds. should buy me enuogh time to test 1.5...
have a nice day ulrich -- ulrich steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barfuss-jerusalem.org -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
