On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 11:11 -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > If someone wants to package an addon, no problem - but they should > keep it > up-to-date. > > One issue that I think is problematic is test cases for addons within > bodhi > for firefox itself. > You should not hold the release of the browser hostage because addon > xyz > isn't functioning > correctly. addons aren't core browser functionality.
Again, why allow addons to be packaged at all if we are not prepared to block browser updates that break addons? Alternatively, rather than block the updates, at least leave the last working version in the repository so that users can downgrade to something more recent. Right now it looks like F26 users can either accept Firefox 57 and live without their addons, or downgrade to 54; why not continue making 56 available for users who want it? As far as I know DNF is capable of handling such scenarios, although maybe there are other parts of the infrastructure that make this difficult. In any case, maybe it is worth revisiting some of the relevant policies on Fedora packaging. This is not a Firefox-specific issue; GNOME, Emacs, etc. also have packaged addons. -- Ben
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