Wolfgang’s blog

hmm, first a Happy new year to everyone (it really was a long time ago as I wrote my last post here :-()

In the meantime I’ve evaluated if I can visit FOSDEM this year. Unfortunately this seems to be not possible. Have I ever wrote about the disadvantages you see when you work officially in a non-development department and try to get budget for a travel to a developer conference? This is really frustrating!

Some good news: SUSE Linux 10.1 will (most probably) contain SeaMonkey 1.0 as replacement for Mozilla (the suite) in addition to Firefox. (Yes, I’m still using the suite in some places.)

Just synced the latest Firefox and Mozilla security updates to the staging server. Mozilla 1.7.12 and 1.0.7 should be visible soon on FTP mirrors out there. (real official YOU updates will follow soon)
I’ve restructured the directories a little bit but for now there are links pointing to the new locations. Those will disappear sometime for clarity reasons, though. In addition I started to provide metadata usable by YaST and YUM together with pages created by repoview. For now this is only available for 9.3 and 10.0 in directories named the same way.

hmm, last night the GNOME guys checked in GTK 2.8 to openSUSE for beta 3. This broke all my mozilla toolkit-based packages (firefox/thunderbird/sunbird)
I found the reason for this but I’m still not sure what is the best fix for it. pangoxft-1.0 and pangox-1.0 will not be linked in the static {application}-bin because they were used to be in MOZ_GTK2_LIBS before which they aren’t now as gtk2.8 is based on cairo.

Back in the office today and found an openSUSE cap on my desk. Thanks Andreas!

Just installed 10.0beta1 and observing some bigger problems with mozilla based packages crashing very often.
The same packages built for 9.3 don’t behave that way. So either we have some glib/gtk problems or it’s caused by the separation of NSPR . I’m just checking this out.

Just read Marcus’ article about mozilla’s security maintenance.
It’s really a pain to have those dependencies to applications which are using Gecko. But we made progress to not depend applications which just use NSPR and NSS on mozilla. So only real Gecko embedding applications are affected. SUSE Linux 10.0 will most likely be the last release with mozilla shipped as application suite as it is discontinued from the Mozilla Foundation. (But we will need another vehicle to deliver Gecko for other applications.)

BTW: I’m on vacation now for one and half week and will be offline for this time not writing to my brand-new blog