On 06/04/26 12:19 (GMT-0400) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: > No, that's not the reason. Developers always like to increase the > number ;-)
> Looking at the diff between our patched 1.5.0.1 version and our > patched 1.5.0.2, we decided to move forward and include 1.5.0.3 for > RC3. The version number is IMO marketing ;-) That x.x.x.# version increment is mozilla.org's way of helping the dozers know there's been a change worth upgrading to get, and making their automatic updating system work, while ensuring that the more knowledgeable understand the change is one of two types of serious unrelated-to-new-features issues, either a security fix, or a crashing fix. Leaving out either type of fix from distro builds seems bad policy to me, while incorporating them via backporting without matching the version seems counterproductive. People who want real version upgrades to mozilla.org products get the nightly builds of the development versions, which for the FF line is found at http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/ for 2.0 or http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ for 3.0, while http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8.0.3/ has the latest 1.5.0.x builds with the lastest security and/or crash fixes for the stable release version. -- "Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them." Ephesians 5:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
