Firefox addon signing

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Aug 28 11:43:08 UTC 2015


Am 28.08.2015 um 13:39 schrieb Emmanuel Seyman:
> * Martin Stransky [28/08/2015 12:21] :
>>
>> 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'm not seeing this, at least as a general rule. Most firefox updates seem
> to be pushed within a day

guess you can trust the maintainer of the firefox package when he says 
it's slow :-) within a day is mostly impossible because of testing, 
karma and the timeframes for pushes

within a day is only possible if you download the build manually from koji

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