Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue May 12 11:26:57 UTC 2009
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:30 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> When "upstream" == "@RH", common sense and rationality seems to be
>> switched off in Fedora.
>>
>> Updating firefox "last minute", between "F11-Preview" and "Final" from a
>> "stable version" to an "unstable version" is such a case - It's beyond
>> reason!
>
> Red Hat isn't the upstream for Firefox.
I know, but the packager who is packaging unstable beta SW into Fedora
is @RH.
> The firefox in F11 preview was firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11. The one
> currently in rawhide is firefox-3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11. Mozilla itself
> changed the version from 3.1 to 3.5, but the planned contents didn't.
> See
> https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/03/05/firefox-31-may-become-firefox-35/
>
> The update was to a /more/ stable version, a later beta release with
> more fixes.
May-be, from one unstable beta to another unstable beta
=> The mistake took place earlier.
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