[HTTPS-Everywhere] New major releases for Firefox and Chrome

[Peter Eckersley]

This can't be fixed by changing the numbering.  The issue is that there are
two separate channels of releases.  Each has its own .xpi files, its own
update.rdf URLs, and its own new upgrades.  If we offered the 2.0.1 xpi
upgrade to people who were running the development branch, we would loose the
(implicit) information about which users were willing to run more experimental
software and which should only get more tested and stable upgrades.

The real fix is that we will release 3.0development.1 on Monday.


On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 03:44:44PM -0500, Erik Harris wrote:
> On 2/27/2012 9:19 PM, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> >And 2.0.1 Stable has been released for Firefox:
> >https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-2.0.1.xpi
> 
> Might you consider a way to tweak the dev version numbers so that
> dev-stable updates are handled properly?  "2.0.1" comes before
> "2.0devevelopment.6" alphabetically, so when Firefox searches for
> updates to my plugins, this update isn't found because it's a
> "lower" version number (at least, I assume that's why it doesn't
> update). I've noticed this for previous dev-stable updates, but
> hadn't mentioned it. Anyone who has used a development release in
> the past and doesn't closely follow this email list will be stuck on
> "2.0dev.6" until a development version for the next release becomes
> available.
> 
> Maybe development releases could be x.x.0.[1-9].dev and stable
> releases could be x.x.[1-9]?  For example, "2.0.0.6.dev" would have
> been the last development release prior to "2.0.1" and the increment
> in version number would cause Firefox to see and install the update
> automatically.
> 
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