[CentOS-devel] Fwd: [CentOS] CentOS 7: Missing Thunderbird Updates

Fri Dec 2 16:38:45 UTC 2022
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 02.12.22 um 16:14 schrieb Johnny Hughes:
> On 12/2/22 01:53, Tomáš Popela wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 8:30 AM Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch 
>> <mailto:simon.matter at invoca.ch>> wrote:
>>
>>     While we are at it, I saw the following lines in
>>     /usr/bin/thunderbird and
>>     it looks like %RHEL_ENV_VARS% should be replaced at build time.
>>
>>     Can someone tell me what is there instead on a RHEL system?
>>
>>
>> Nothing, it's the same - it's a leftover after the rebase that will be 
>> removed in 102.6 builds (originally reported as 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144637 
>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144637>)
>>
>> Tom
> 
> Basically, because the upstream maintainers of Firefox/Thunderbird are 
> always using newer and newer rust/llvm/clang and other things to build 
> the products .. and because in Enterprise Linux we are trying to support 
> an older set of shared libraries for software development, this means 
> shoehorning things like these two programs into running on the older 
> shared libraries.  We need to build them one way and run them on 
> something else.
> 
> The RHEL team does a wonderful job of making this happen and as the date 
> from release gets further and further along this becomes harder and 
> harder to do. They deserve a huge amount of credit for making this 
> happen.  At least IMHO.


Anyone that already got into such dependency hell, knows what kind of 
trouble this implies. Yep, and a big thank you for you!

I wonder if this can be addressed beforehand. Then its clear that
next year Mozilla will start the work on version 115 in May and the ESR
release will be GA end of June. So, RH will start shipping the new
ESR version in August. These are my personal estimations. Maybe the
dependency graph could be elaborated ... not sure if this is feasible.

--
Leon