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

Wed Feb 8 05:34:47 CET 2012

Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> 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.
+>>>        
+
+The long-term support versions just obsolete lower-numbered 
+non-long-term-support versions.
+
+>> 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
+>
+>    
++1
+I doubt that we will lose any (or many) users interested in the latest 
+version, as all distros will be faced with this time lag relative to 
+upstream.
+
+-- 
+André
+
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