331710 - TextMarker! incompatible with Firefox 1.5, but appears as installable.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Policy, defect)

Description

[Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 Firefox/1.5.0.1

The summary pretty much sums it up.

I'd suggest removal of the extension or at least don't show it (what ever happened to that feature anyway) to anyone with a version of Firefox higher than Deer Park.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Vist that URL....
Actual Results:  
See summary

Expected Results:  
It woujld show compatible for my version of Firefox (1.5).

Comment 1

[Cameron]

We have no policy regarding abandoned addons. Eg this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=20 hasn't been updated on UMO since June 2004 ;)

As for browser sniffing - that went out the window some time ago. Can't quite remember why.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 278234 ***

Comment 2

[Scott]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We have no policy regarding abandoned addons...

My point exactly. 

You need such a policy.   Do I re-open this or do I have to start over?

And how is this a duplicate of the other bug?  

Comment 3

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

AMO BUGSPAM FOR COMPONENT MOVE AND DELETE (FILTER ME)

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

AMO BUGSPAM FOR QACONTACT FIX (FILTER ME)

Comment 5

[Cameron]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > We have no policy regarding abandoned addons...
> 
> My point exactly. 
> 
> You need such a policy.   Do I re-open this or do I have to start over?
> 
> And how is this a duplicate of the other bug?  
> 
My apologies. This is a dependency, not a duplicate. I also screwed up in that I didn't CC myself to this when marking it as a dupe, and as such did not answer your queries.

Comment 6

[Cameron]

Sooo.. this is a dependency on the other bug, I twiddled some stuff. And yeah. Until we get some policy on this we can't take any action.

Comment 7

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

This isn't a policy bug, it's about this incompatible extension appearing as though it's compatible.  It has a maxversion of "Deer Park" for the latest entry, and I have no idea what our version code does with that.  We also say "Firefox  	0.7 - 1.0+  	ALL" for the compat blurb at the bottom of the listing, but then offers to install on my Bon Echo a3 (which happily fails due to incompatibility).

I'm pretty interested in getting rid of the "Deer Park" version string, which I've marked as non-public (along with a bunch of other old pre-release versions), but that's a separate bug, IMO.

Comment 8

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Raising severity -- version constraints are our lives.

Comment 9

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

As Cameron points out to me, we don't try to do version checking, and only "enforce" the platform.  We should enforce version the same way, I think.  Bleh.

Comment 10

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

*sigh*

Unhijacking the bug to leave this just as a policy issue (though I think that our policy will likely be "needs to be kept working with updates to the release version for which it was marked compatible", and not "must be updated for all future versions").

Comment 11

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

This add-on got all updated and stuff.