283218 - firefox and thunderbird installer version bump should be automatic

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 277881

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The patch in bug 283181 had to change the installer versions in three places
(two places with the Firefox version, one place with the GRE version).  This
should all be automated using the central locations of these versions
(browser/config/version.txt == MOZ_APP_VERSION, config/milestone.txt ==
MOZILLA_VERSION).

This should happen before we create our next release branch so we don't have to
deal with this mess anymore.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Let's make this cover thunderbird too, since the patches are very similar.  The
thunderbird patch to mimic will presumably appear soon in bug 283224.

Comment 2

[Chase Phillips]

We need to automate updating the browser and mail module.ver files to get the
internal exe files to reflect the version bump.  These files are in:

  * browser/app/module.ver
  * mail/app/module.ver

We're missing some GRE product version info in a file, too.  Not sure where
that's at.

Comment 3

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Related bug?
bug 277881

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277881 ***