On 2005-07-19 23:41:05 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Vincent Lefevre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I can see nothing there that this can break extensions. > > Firefox is not a shared library. I don't remember any guarantee > things wouldn't break between releases.
AFAIK, there is an API, and extensions provide compatibility information, so that possible breakage can be detected. Otherwise things are not supposed to break (except minor ones or for security reasons). Here I was not sure of the source of the problem. > Anyway, this whole thing is moot, the breakage was not known until > after the release. 1.0.6 has just been released to fix the API. That's why I reported the bug. I didn't think at that time it wasn't intentional. > Firefox is not a library, new versions can and will break things. > You can bet your ass Firefox 1.1 will break things. But for the extensions provided by Debian packages, this should be tested and tracked with dependencies, IMHO. Or at least in the ChangeLog of the Firefox package. The goal is that the user can be warned *before* upgrading his system. > > The user needs to know if an upgrade will break packages. > > This is unstable, things break. If you can't handle it, don't use > unstable. Things break, but they are not supposed to break, even in unstable. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
