[ale] Firefox 5.0

[Chuck Peters]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf at wolfhalton.info> wrote:

> I just did an update of my current Ubuntu 11.04 and it gave me something
> called firefox 5.0 -- firefox for ubuntu - canonical 1.0.
>

You must be running the natty-proposed repository.  When I saw it this
morning I thought we have another archive snafu like we had with the kernel
last week, only that was LTS lucid-proposed.  I sent a quick email to the
packager when I noticed it this morning...

Subject: Re: natty-proposed has Firefox 5.0~b5+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
From: Chris Coulson <chris.coulson at canonical.com>
To: Chuck Peters <chuck.peters at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:22:08 +0100

On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 06:16 -0400, Chuck Peters wrote:
> I think you will want to fix this ASAP.
>
> It was too early for firefox 4 to be in main in my opinion, but who knows
> maybe the 5 beta will be better.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck

Hi,

This is deliberate. We will be publishing the next Firefox security
update (5.0) to natty-security on June 21st, but we are also
restructuring the language packs at the same time (we are splitting
firefox translations out in to their own packages). The new language
packs need testing in natty-proposed before we can do this, but testing
these depends on the new Firefox translations. If we wait for the stable
release of 5.0 before starting testing in natty-proposed, then we will
delay publishing the security update and we can't risk doing this
without knowing the severity of the security issues that are fixed in
the 5.0 release.

Regards
Chris
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