Am 09.10.2011 12:50, schrieb Christoph Wickert:
> Which extensions are you talking about? The ones I use never
caused an
> such issues.
For example mozilla-adblockplus or chatzilla, also German language packs
or dictionaries.
use adblockplus from the mozilla-extensions page
works fine with FF4,5,6,7
problem is that the packaged extensions for FF/TB are NOT
updated as rapidly they should, but this is not a problem
of firefox itself
>> So what can we do to improve the situation?
>> 1. Can we bring back the language packs as part of the packages?
>
> They are already there.
Indeed, they are there, but stopped working at some point. At least for me.
seems only affect you because i would cry loud if my FF is no
longer in german and i am using the
>> 2. Can the FF maintainers make sure that all maintainers
of
>> extensions get notified of changes *before* release of a new
>> package?
>
> Which maintainers are you talking about? Packaged extensions or
> upstream extension maintainers?
Packaged extensions of course, notifying upstream doesn't make much
sense.
the question is why are the extension-maintainers are not using
updates-testing - i see a new ff-build as user at the same time
it is built and extensions-maintainers do not look what happening?
No, but the packaged ones. It is the FF maintainers duty to notify
extension maintainers in advance [1]. If they are proven packagers they
could also fix the extensions themselves. If not they should apply for
co-maintainership
in my opinion the maintainers of firefox should also maintain
the packed extensions and update/rebuild them at the same time
as FF/TB