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Bug 1321131
Opened 7 years ago
Updated 7 years ago
All SeaMonkey dev builds are on "default" release channel
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: Release Engineering, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: onnebula9, Unassigned, NeedInfo)
Details
(Keywords: reproducible)
To reproduce: 1. Download/build any developer build of SeaMonkey (i.e., nightly, beta, aurora) 2. Go to about:config and check "app.update.channel", or go to about: and see the release channel is "default". For these non-release builds, the release channel should be set to a proper release channel. When new non-release builds are put up, SeaMonkey does not notify the user since it is still set to the default release channel. I have found this to be the case on all platforms, and all development builds I've tested (from 2.40 up) This is NOT a duplicate of #893547, since that bug relates merely not to the actual release channel, but merely the correct display thereof. The release channel here is correctly displayed, but erroneously set.
Comment 1•7 years ago
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(In reply to neb9 from comment #0) Can you contribute a source concerning function of "app.update.channel"?
Flags: needinfo?(onnebula9)
Comment 2•7 years ago
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(In reply to neb9 from comment #0) Effect is REPRODUCIBLE with Server-Installation of unofficial (by FRG) en-US SeaMonkey 2.50a1 (NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0 Build 20161127221846 (Default Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit: "app.update.channel" is "release" also in a newly created User Profile. And if I understand <http://kb.mozillazine.org/App.update.channel> correctly this indeed is wrong. I will do some more investigation
Keywords: reproducible
Comment 3•7 years ago
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a) FF 53.0a1 (2016-11-18) (32-bit) correctly shows "nightly" in "app.update.channel"
Comment 4•7 years ago
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b) also Thunderbird Daily 53.0a1 (2016-11-27) (64-bit) correctly shows "nightly" @neb9 Do you know where this started? @Edmund: Your area?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Version: Trunk → SeaMonkey 2.50 Branch
Comment 5•7 years ago
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Unofficial/test builds are supposed to always have the "default" channel. That is the correct setting. Only official builds can have other channels, it's only useful for build that actually have updates delivered through the update servers. From all I can see, there is no bug there.
(In reply to Robert Kaiser from comment #5) > Unofficial/test builds are supposed to always have the "default" channel. > That is the correct setting. Only official builds can have other channels, > it's only useful for build that actually have updates delivered through the > update servers. > From all I can see, there is no bug there. This applies not only to self-made builds, but also to the official (or as official as official gets) nightly, beta and aurora builds released on ftp.moz. So I'd still consider it a bug.
Comment 7•7 years ago
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(In reply to neb9 from comment #6) > This applies not only to self-made builds, but also to the official (or as > official as official gets) nightly, beta and aurora builds released on > ftp.moz. So I'd still consider it a bug. OK, in terms of official, non-contributed builds, if the channel there is set to "default", that is definitely a bug, and ewong/Callek need to take a look.
Comment 8•7 years ago
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> Effect is REPRODUCIBLE with Server-Installation of unofficial (by FRG) en-US SeaMonkey
Rainer I am lazy and use the same config for all trees. So it will always be release in the builds I give you for testing (yes I know I shouldn't do this<g>).
It seems that MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL is currently not set in the trees or mozconfigs. Probably set for Firefox somewhere but i don't see where right now.
Comment 9•7 years ago
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I just downloaded (on Linux-i686) both nightly (2.50) and aurora (2.49) builds. Both display in app.update.channel nightly (for 2.50) and aurora (for 2.49) and ditto with about: Am I missing some step here? I got both: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nightly/latest-comm-central-trunk/seamonkey-2.50a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nightly/latest-comm-aurora/seamonkey-2.49a2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
Comment 10•7 years ago
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I believe this is limited to the Windows platform which means it's my bad. I've made some infra adjustments and it should be fixed in 2.50a1 and 2.49a2.
OS: All → Windows
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