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

Thu Feb 9 11:33:46 CET 2012

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:34 AM, andre999 <andre999mga at laposte.net> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+I would suggests to stuck on cauldron to version 10.x and in mageia 1
+too and to start to update again as soon as cauldron is open again.
+
+some objections ?
+