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

[Maarten Vanraes]

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