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

[D.Morgan]

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 ?