[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#721092: Bug#720447: Bug#721092: xul-ext-pentadactyl is incompatible with iceweasel

[David Prévot]

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Hi Michael,

Le 09/09/2013 06:25, Michael Schutte a écrit :

> I'm on it for unstable (#720447).

Great, since you’ve already uploaded, dropping this bug report.

> As far as stable (#721092) goes, I think that an upgrade through a point
> release is not the right approach because xul-ext-pentadactyl is in fact
> compatible with iceweasel in stable;

Right, but this is “just” a transient issue that may as well be fixed
with the upcoming point release.

> the problem is with the version of
> iceweasel in stable-security, which can change again at any point in the
> future, breaking xul-ext-pentadactyl anew.

Well, the future ESR upgrade of iceweasel is worth having in mind, i.e.
we should try to do our best to make an eventual fix working in a not
yet published version, but that shouldn’t stop us to fix the current issue.

> Meanwhile, updating dactyl
> through stable-security is also not a possibility

It may not be welcome, but it already happened for at least enigmail and
adblockplus. In the mean time, the release team already accepted a bunch
of minimal patches that allow some extensions to work in both
stable-security and the current stable (at least a more invasive one has
been proposed for firetray, and has not yet been rejected).

> If there are no objections I'm therefore going to downgrade the severity
> of #721092, tag it wontfix and leave it for posterity.

I would strongly disagree (SC#3 We will not hide problems), if dactyl
happen to be broken in stable and no fix can address that, the package
should be removed from stable.

> I might also
> upload an updated version to wheezy-backports.

Thanks!

Regards

David


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