Comment 29 for bug 274187

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 274187] Re: FFe - firefox 3.1 and xulrunner 1.9.1 for intrepid/universe

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:21:02PM -0000, John Dong wrote:
> 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.
>

Urgh. Thanks, anyway, now i feel a bit scared :). does that work properly?
could you help us to get this in a proper branch. would help us a lot
to fix long term maintenance for that branch.

 - Alexander