Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Tomasz Paweł Gajc <phenomenal@(protected):
>
>>> no requires on libfirefox3 or anything it contains. Are automatic
>>> library dependencies not working for packages in /testing or
>>> something?
>> Well i have idea to drop that stupid libification and do this:
>>
>> firefox - only binaries
>>
>> firefox-base - a new name for libified old package
>>
>> or
>>
>> firefox-bin - binaries
>>
>> and firefox - old libified package.
>>
>> There are plenty of possibilities, but i think that libification is
>> useless, and somehow this should be fixed.
>
> This will break updates when not all packages are rebuild at the same
> time (eg: cooker).
>
> The real bug is the _abuse_ of major bumping upstream for no good
> reasons.
>
> It's obvious they're _NOT_ changing the _ABI_ when releasing a
> security update and thus bumping the so major is an abuse.

The upstream is not changing a major. In fact, the libraries do not have
any major.

> It's just gratuitous ABI breakage. If only they would enable just
> backporting the small security patches... :-(
>
> Me wonders why we don't got the debian way for firefox...

Me too.

> Please write to the mozilla foundation instead

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Anssi Hannula