PackageEndOfLife: firefox-32

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:04 -0700, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> No.  To be more precise, firefox itself does the specific thing that 
> firefox-32 intended.  The person who created the package did not
> think 
> to check 'setarch i386 firefox' to see if that would work.  It does.
> 
> nspluginwrapper solves a different problem really, but has a
> by-product 
> that less people will want to run 32 bit browsers.
> 
> I see no reason to allow stupid packages to clutter specfiles with 
> Obsolete/Provides, especially with the history of this package (me 
> having asked the packager to not go through with the package in the 
> first place, etc).

Well I'm mostly concerned about the user experience for people that
already have firefox-32 installed.  What does it depend on, what will
show up as broken deps if firefox itself gets updated, etc...  Will this
package just sit quietly and never harm the user by being installed?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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