Firefox addon signing

Martin Stransky stransky at redhat.com
Fri Aug 28 10:21:20 UTC 2015


On 08/28/2015 11:40 AM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> * Martin Stransky [28/08/2015 11:24] :
>>
>> Thanks for the info. Actually is there any reason why Fedora packager would
>> need to modify the original extension?
>
> If there is a security issue with an extension, the packager might well
> want to distribute a patched version while waiting for a new release.

That's possible but the update process in Fedora is recently too slow. 
Even Firefox security updates sits in testing for week. I bet that 
official update from AMO (mozilla extension site) will be way faster 
that Fedora update.

ma.


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