[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases

Mon Feb 6 22:38:22 CET 2012

Op maandag 06 februari 2012 08:50:21 schreef Sander Lepik:
+> 06.02.2012 09:38, Funda Wang kirjutas:
+> > And, don't forget, we still have a package named firefox-beta. If we
+> > stick with FF10, then some day we will come to a situation of
+> > firefox-10.0.4 and firefox-beta-15b1 for Mageia 2, which is
+> > unacceptable. Or, we should make an exception on firefox-beta, it
+> > should be obsoleted by updated firefox for stable distros.
+> 
+> Indeed, firefox-beta must be obsoleted on stable release like chrome's
+> similar versions are as we don't have maintaner who wants to keep them
+> up-to-date on stable releases.
+> I agree with D.Morgan that if we want to continue with ESR version then
+> cauldron will stay on 10.0 (not sure how we can have newer versions of
+> beta if they depend on the same packages).
+> And it's also true that we will lose some users if they don't want to
+> use tarball version and will pick distro that can keep browsers
+> up-to-date. Sad, but true.
+> 
+> (Funda, can you please stop top-posting. This is rude man!)
+> 
+> --
+> Sander
+
+possibly if someone has time, they could try to maintain/backport the non-ESR 
+branch...
+
+but imho, if people want the latest, they don't wait for packagers to 
+finish+test it in one week, the get upstream version...
+
+so the other persons are fine with ESR versions... imho
+