[nzlug] [OT] World record attempt tomorrow - Download Firefox 3
Robin Sheat
robin at kallisti.net.nz
Mon Jun 16 22:36:01 NZST 2008
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Nick Rout wrote:
> The weird thing is ubuntu update a few days (even a week?) ago and my
> firefox claims to be 3.0 since then (ie from Help|About)
>
> But dpkg tells me its 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
It's the RC. But the Help->about for an RC reports the real version number. If
there are no blocker bugs found, then that exact version is released as the
final version. So, the version number being 3.0 can't reflect that it's
really the RC, or they'd have to change it to make a release.
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