Comment 28 for bug 274187

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John Dong (jdong) wrote : Re: [Bug 274187] Re: FFe - firefox 3.1 and xulrunner 1.9.1 for intrepid/universe

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Alexander Sack <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 02:41:54PM -0000, John Dong wrote:
> > I still intend on updating Firefox 3.0 in gutsy-backports and it'd be
> > great to be able to work with Mozilla Team to make newer Firefox
> > releases available in the backports pocket. I think it's fairly well
> > understood that Backports is maintained on a best-effort basis and
> > that's still frankly a lot better than the ways the general user
> > population will resort to for installing their latest crack.
> >
>
> Fabien and me are currently working on doing a backport and making a
> proper branch out of it. Help appreciated. You know where to find us ;).
>
Sigh premature-upload seems to sum up my private life and Ubuntu life.
Backports PPA has a 3.0.3 backport that merges the changes from hardy ->
hardy-security debdiff into the original backports.

I saw your gutsy-backport branch and as of last Friday it was a bit out of
date so I decided to do it from familiar ground for me. So far these
packages test well for me.