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<H1>[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases</H1>
<B>D.Morgan</B>
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<I>Thu Feb 9 11:33:46 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:34 AM, andre999 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">andre999mga at laposte.net</A>> wrote:
><i> Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Op maandag 06 februari 2012 08:50:21 schreef Sander Lepik:
</I>>><i>
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> 06.02.2012 09:38, Funda Wang kirjutas:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> And, don't forget, we still have a package named firefox-beta. If we
</I>>>>><i> stick with FF10, then some day we will come to a situation of
</I>>>>><i> firefox-10.0.4 and firefox-beta-15b1 for Mageia 2, which is
</I>>>>><i> unacceptable. Or, we should make an exception on firefox-beta, it
</I>>>>><i> should be obsoleted by updated firefox for stable distros.
</I>>>>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The long-term support versions just obsolete lower-numbered
</I>><i> non-long-term-support versions.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>>>><i> Indeed, firefox-beta must be obsoleted on stable release like chrome's
</I>>>><i> similar versions are as we don't have maintaner who wants to keep them
</I>>>><i> up-to-date on stable releases.
</I>>>><i> I agree with D.Morgan that if we want to continue with ESR version then
</I>>>><i> cauldron will stay on 10.0 (not sure how we can have newer versions of
</I>>>><i> beta if they depend on the same packages).
</I>>>><i> And it's also true that we will lose some users if they don't want to
</I>>>><i> use tarball version and will pick distro that can keep browsers
</I>>>><i> up-to-date. Sad, but true.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> (Funda, can you please stop top-posting. This is rude man!)
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> --
</I>>>><i> Sander
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> possibly if someone has time, they could try to maintain/backport the
</I>>><i> non-ESR
</I>>><i> branch...
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> but imho, if people want the latest, they don't wait for packagers to
</I>>><i> finish+test it in one week, the get upstream version...
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> so the other persons are fine with ESR versions... imho
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> +1
</I>><i> I doubt that we will lose any (or many) users interested in the latest
</I>><i> version, as all distros will be faced with this time lag relative to
</I>><i> upstream.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> André
</I>><i>
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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 ?
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