Please unblock xulrunner 1.9.0.3-1 [Was: Re: Mozilla in Lenny]

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sun Sep 28 15:20:02 UTC 2008


Hi release managers,

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 06:53:22PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:39:07AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > I'm going to upload 1.9.0.3-1 soon, so I invite the release team to
> > already take a look at the upstream changes to anticipate the upload.
> > 
> > Changes between 1.9.0.1 and 1.9.0.2
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mozilla/iceweasel.git;a=commit;h=665bfa3a9adefe649266a524aa046c513f937ab3
> > Changes between 1.9.0.2 and 1.9.0.3
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mozilla/iceweasel.git;a=commit;h=f2bb1a05028205e3c0c1ca9f769b291aa79b1a71
> > 
> > (This is the iceweasel repository, but as it happens, xulrunner and
> > iceweasel tarballs are now perfectly identical)
> 
> And FWIW, attached here are the additional patches in my current trunk,
> compared to 1.9.0.1-1, that will end up in 1.9.0.3-1.
> 
> Changelog, so far, looks like this:
> 
>   * New upstream release.
>   * debian/xulrunner-1.9.install: Don't install dependentlibs.list. It's
>     causing problems with gdb and is not necessary on our builds.
>   * debian/control: Bumped Standards-Version to 3.8.0.1. No changes.
>   * xulrunner/app/Makefile.in: Use browser/app/mozilla.in instead of
>     xulrunner/app/mozilla.in. The browser version has received more love
>     upstream, and properly remove the xremote code, which has been handled
>     by the binary itself for a while, and causes some problems on PPC at
>     least.
>   * build/unix/run-mozilla.sh, debian/postinstrm.in, debian/rules,
>     xulrunner/stub/nsXULStub.cpp: Disable jemalloc by default, because of all
>     the kinds of random problems it causes, but let advanced users load it by
>     setting the MOZILLA_JEMALLOC environment variable. Closes: #490360.
>   * debian/rules: Create sdk/bin as a symlink to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.
>     Closes: #491693
>   * modules/plugin/base/src/nsPluginHostImpl.cpp: Don't register plugins if
>     the MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS environment variable is set.

I uploaded this release as is (modulo the addition of CVE and MFSA
references). The last issue that I really wanted to address before
uploading this ended up being an epiphany issue (zoom crashes, #486744).

All the information for review is available in the previous messages in
this thread.

Cheers,

Mike



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