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

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Fri Feb 10 15:34:37 CET 2012


On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Florian Hubold wrote:

> Our update policy already has an exception for Firefox, and so far there were
> no bigger issues during updates from our initial 4.0 to 10.0. And if most other
> distros don't use ESR, we're kind of alienated, and users will ask why we do that,
> because we're not aimed at enterprise usage currently.

There was an exception for firefox because there was no other choice.
Now that mozilla provide supported stable versions, there is no reason
to keep the exception. What would be the reason to keep updating firefox
to the latest version and not do the same for all other software ?



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