Security updates for Firefox 4 in F-15

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jun 29 03:42:51 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 21:17 -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> On 2011-06-26 12:33, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > And I have no idea what part of our update policy should be violated by
> > this update. Please somebody enlighten me.
> 
> This part:
>   * Avoid changing the user experience if at all possible.
> 
> Specifically, the update breaks a number of user-installed extensions 
> because the extensions expect a certain version string.  This is a 
> functional regression regardless of whether or not the extension API 
> changed.
> 
> Please do not misconstrue this message as a value judgment.

Note "if at all possible", which to me means "this requirement is
important but does not supersede the requirements to pass on key
security and bug fixes from upstream".
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