Comment 14 for bug 537900

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:30:17AM -0000, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Is there a summary available of the upstream changes (in particular, any
> > changes that aren't straightforward bugfixes)?

> Since the current package is from more than one year ago, there surely
> are.

Right, but can you tell me what those are? Bugfixes don't require a Feature
Freeze exception, features do; if we're to grant a freeze exception, I want
to know what I'm excepting.

> > If there are non-bugfix changes here, why do these warrant a freeze
> > exception?

> The main reason is that the package was out of sync with Debian for a
> while because it didn't work anymore with Ubuntu's xulrunner (which
> doesn't allow xulrunner-stub to be symlinked) and hasn't been synced
> anymore after that problem has been fixed in Debian in January.

OTOH, you've also pointed out the two commits you care about; so if the
update as a whole seems risky due to the non-bugfix changes, is there a
reason not to cherry-pick just those changes?

Cheers,
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