-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Coulson wrote on 18/10/11 21:57: > ... > > 1) A long standing issue we have is that upgrades totally break > all currently running instances of Firefox or Thunderbird until > they are restarted. This is made worse because we move the install > location around between updates, but pulling the rug from > underneath any running instance is probably never going to work > reliably, even if the install location doesn't change. > > Note, this isn't just an issue with Mozilla applications - we just > notice it more because we update them a lot more frequently than > anything else in the archive. As another example, there was a Glade > -> GtkBuilder transition a few cycles ago, where upgrades between > distro-versions broke things such as the currently running instance > of gnome-panel [2] due to the glade files being replaced with > gtkbuilder ui files. I just wanted to point this out before people > start blaming Firefox that this is really a problem with how our > package manager works... > > ...
Fixing this was previously discussed at UDS Lucid, but not implemented. <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/upgrading-running-software> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UpgradingRunningPrograms> - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6e8LYACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoNwACeNYau9fEyAwMfgy65+7s8u5ft t/UAn1TspliFvOvy+x7H6z0AS7EWtk2E =4UB1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
