[ale] Firefox 5.0

[Wolf Halton]

On 06/10/2011 05:30 PM, Chuck Peters wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf at wolfhalton.info 
> <mailto:wolf at wolfhalton.info>> wrote:
>
>     I just did an update of my current Ubuntu 11.04 and it gave me
>     something
>     called firefox 5.0 -- firefox for ubuntu - canonical 1.0.
>
>
> You must be running the natty-proposed repository.  When I saw it this 
> morning I thought we have another archive snafu like we had with the 
> kernel last week, only that was LTS lucid-proposed.  I sent a quick 
> email to the packager when I noticed it this morning...
>
> Subject: Re: natty-proposed has Firefox 5.0~b5+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
> From: Chris Coulson<chris.coulson at canonical.com  <mailto:chris.coulson at canonical.com>>
> To: Chuck Peters<chuck.peters at gmail.com  <mailto:chuck.peters at gmail.com>>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:22:08 +0100
>
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 06:16 -0400, Chuck Peters wrote:
> >  I think you will want to fix this ASAP.
> >
> >  It was too early for firefox 4 to be in main in my opinion, but who knows
> >  maybe the 5 beta will be better.
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >  Chuck
>
> Hi,
>
> This is deliberate. We will be publishing the next Firefox security
> update (5.0) to natty-security on June 21st, but we are also
> restructuring the language packs at the same time (we are splitting
> firefox translations out in to their own packages). The new language
> packs need testing in natty-proposed before we can do this, but testing
> these depends on the new Firefox translations. If we wait for the stable
> release of 5.0 before starting testing in natty-proposed, then we will
> delay publishing the security update and we can't risk doing this
> without knowing the severity of the security issues that are fixed in
> the 5.0 release.
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
>
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I turned off "proposed".  I have not experienced such a surprise before.
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