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Re: PPC & FireFox

 

Hi,

 Could you or Kate make a mention in the A1 notes that there is no browser
> for anyone in ppc builds
> (19:58:21) phillw: Julien will make a note in ours, but it is distro
> independant.
> (19:58:43) balloons: phillw, yes indeed I can


Regards,

Phill.

On 6 June 2012 19:46, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Julien.
>
> when chatting to Nicholas (balloons on IRC) in todays QA meeting, he did
> not mention it as a block to A1 for ppc (There are a lot of other things to
> test!). I guess a mention in the release notes for ppc A1's is warranted to
> prevent duplicate bugs arriving on the bug tracker.
>
> Anytime before feature-freeze is quite soon enough in the cycle to include
> an application which Mozilla themselves will have tested (I do hope it is
> well before then!).
>
> I'll go ask Nicholas and Kate about including the matter in the generic
> release notes for A1 ppc (as it is not just Lubuntu who is affected).
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 6 June 2012 19:27, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 6/6/12 9:15 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
>> > Le 06/06/2012 07:14 PM, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
>> >> @ Julien, any ideas on a (rough) time scale.
>> >
>> > Probably not for Alpha 1, last update of firefox still not build on
>> powerpc.
>> >
>> > Alpha 1 is supposed to "just" boot and install properly (no crash,
>> > system usable ...). So, IMO we should not block the release for this.
>> > But, if you consider it serious enough, we can not release powerpc ISO
>> > for A1.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Julien Lavergne
>>
>> Well, it boots and installs fine, so if those are the only criteria, it
>> passes.  I can redo the tests tomorrow pm (utc+3) with that in mind.
>> However, there's not much use from it without a browser.
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Lars
>>
>
>
>
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