[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#910627: xul-ext-nostalgy: Please update to upstream 0.2.36 to be compatible with TB 60+

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:46:08AM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> On 1/21/19 4:33 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 04:18:06PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> >> Hello from the Montreal BSP!
> >>
> >> I tested the latest release of the upstream version (0.2.36) and it
> >> worked fine for me on the latest Thunderbird in testing.
> >>
> >> I migrated the nostalgy VCS from the Alioth archive to Salsa and updated
> >> it to the latest release: https://salsa.debian.org/webext-team/nostalgy
> >>
> >> After testing it, everything seems to work for me. I asked
> >> anarcat at debian.org to upload it to the archive.
> > 
> > Note that the original bug report is for Stretch. Are you also planning
> > to update stable as well?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Sadly, one cannot simply update a package in Stretch (the current stable
> version) that easily. What makes Debian Stable is that packages aren't
> updated but for security reasons.

I'm moderately familiar with our procedures of updating stable...

If noone fixes that in stable, I'll request removal of the broken package
by the next point release.

Cheers,
        Moritz