Re: Any chance of getting a more recent thunderbird into Sarge?

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Alexander Sack wrote:
[snip]
> >Being current on all architectures the package has previously been built
> >for is a requirement for getting updates into testing.  I think there is
> >also a question of whether the mips/mipsel binaries now in unstable are
> >usable; this is at least the case for mozilla and (IIRC)
> >mozilla-firefox.
> > 
> >
> AFAIK, 0.8-2 should be okay on mips/mipsel. I added the remove of -xgot 
> patch provided by Thiemo Seufer. See: 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272162.

They still don't work, because of binutils #272149. Until a new binutils
with that patch is used for compilation, all three mozilla packages will
fail (at startup while loading libgklayout.so, if everything else is ok).


Thiemo