Firefox and Thunderbird Aug releases

[David]

On 8/8/2013 6:09 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:18 PM, David <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for that. So tell me wwy the Xulrunner dependency for Firefox
>> came out right away, it alwyas does, and Firefox was delayed? As it
>> always is.
> 
> It looks like the maintainer made a mistake and accidentally bumped
> the version in the RPM wrong, so Firefox 23 did get released at the
> same time, but rpm thought it was Firefox 22.  I imagine the Firefox
> maintainers a few scripts so they can get updates out really fast, but
> this time they (or it) tripped up and pass a wrong argument to them or
> something.  Us package maintainers are human too.  ;-)
> 
> A tester caught it four whole hours after the update was submitted,
> and three hours after that it was fixed (most of which was probably
> spent waiting for it to build ;-).  This didn't even delay it from
> making the day's updates-testing push.


Which is proof that 'stuff happens'.  :-)

I see. And thank you for that. I certainly did not mean to create a
problem with a simple question.

Thanks again.


-- 

  David