Bug#666675: iceweasel: It still changes the order

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Fri May 4 10:21:01 UTC 2012


On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 06:18:14AM -0400, Ariel wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 4 May 2012, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:17:28AM -0400, Ariel wrote:
> 
> >>Is it possible for this fix to be included in the backports as
> >>well? I just upgraded from 11 to 12 and the search engines were
> >>reordered (apparently randomly).
> >
> >The fix is in the backports. But if you used one of the affected
> >versions, you're likely to be hit by a problem at upgrade. This is
> >unfortunate, but there is not much that can be done without a lot of
> >work.
> >
> >Affected versions are 11.0-3, 11.0-4, 10.0.3esr-3 and their
> >corresponding backports.
> >
> >I don't think there are enough people having used these versions
> >and reordering/deleting search engines to spend time on the upgrade
> >issue from these versions. What is important is upgrades from stable,
> >and this works properly (unless proven otherwise)
> 
> But will it happen again on the next upgrade (12 to 13 or a point
> release of 12)? If not then that's fine.
> 
> But if, because I used one of the bad versions, it will always
> reorder, then that's not good.

It should be okay when upgrading from a non affected version to another
non affected version. If it's not, please file a new bug.

Mike





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