From: Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   Tristan Miller wrote:   
   > Greetings.   
   >   
   > On 02/04/2021 04.07, Malcolm wrote:   
   >> Ask for it to be rebuilt with the new version 2.53.7   
   >   
   >   
   > I'm one of the maintainers of the SeaMonkey package for openSUSE.   
   > Unfortunately, in SeaMonkey 2.53.6 the build system changed in a way   
   > that broke the scripts used by many packagers (not just for openSUSE but   
   > other distributions as well).  I spent a long time trying to get things   
   > to work again back in January but was unsuccessful; I also reached out   
   > to the other package maintainer but received no response.   
   >   
   > In February I was contacted by the SeaMonkey packager for Fedora, who   
   > seems to have figured out how to get his own RPMs to build again, and   
   > shared some advice and a new Makefile.  Unfortunately, due to real life   
   > commitments I haven't yet been able to look into these yet.  I expect   
   > I'll be able to do this starting in mid-April.   
   >   
   > In the meantime, if anyone else wants to give things a shot, you can   
   > discuss your results at the bug I've raised for this issue [1] or you   
   > can just download and run the official binaries [2] which is the   
   > workaround I'm using.  In any case, you might want to CC yourself on   
   > that bug as that way you'll be notified when it's fixed.   
   >   
   > Regards,   
   > Tristan   
   >   
   > [1] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181525   
   >   
   > [2] https://www.seamonkey-project.org/   
   >   
      
   I see that bug 1181525 was marked as "Resolved Fixed" on April 16, but   
   neither 2.53.6 nor the later levels have made it to the Leap-Update   
   repository yet.  The current level on Leap-Mozilla-Test is 2.53.7.1, it   
   has been available there since April 20.   
      
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