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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this should be a 0-day SRU, so that upgraders will get it right
away when we announce. I just think it's too late to cram it into final,
as Chris is on vacation this week stilll, the fix needs testing, and
it's not actually impacting fresh installs and the live system.

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Title:
  searchplugins installation damaged after natty->oneiric upgrade

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “firefox” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I did a natty->oneiric distribution upgrade today, and was left with
  "Ask.com" as the only option in the Firefox search box.

  The upgrade was from/to the following versions of the firefox package:

  7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
  7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

  After the upgrade /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/distribution was an empty
  directory, not a symlink as it is supposed to be.

  From /var/log/dpkg.log, I can see that the last upgrade to firefox
  from natty-updates was a full week ago, so I'm certain that I still
  had Google showing in the search box before the dist-upgrade.
  (Additionally, the mtime of the spurious
  /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/distribution directory matches timestamps in
  /var/log/dpkg.log for the unpack of the oneiric package)


  I also upgraded a second system natty->oneiric simultaneously - that
  one did *not* manifest the problem.  The only pertinent difference
  that I can see on that system is that it had not been upgraded with
  SRUs for several weeks, and as such still had firefox 6.0.2+build2
  +nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 installed.

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