[Mageia-discuss] Mozilla updates

[Florian Hubold]

Am 30.08.2011 15:04, schrieb TJ:
> On 08/28/2011 11:27 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 08:47:28PM -0400, TJ wrote in
>> <j3enj7$27u$1 at dough.gmane.org>:
>>> As I complete my brand-new production install of Mageia 1, I'm
>>> overjoyed to see that Firefox has been updated to version 6. Too bad
>>> they didn't do the same with Thunderbird...
>>>
>>> Oh, well. At least the vendor's package is easy to install.
>>
>> For firefox, the new release claims to offer some fixes for security
>> issues while the release packaged has been EOL'ed by Mozilla, meaning no
>> security fixes will be made to those older versions anymore.
>>
>> With Thunderbird, they have been less clear and the version released
>> with Mageia is still supported, sort of. Because of this, and for as
>> long as this holds, that release will be included with Mageia 1, though
>> newer versions might well appear in the backports section.
>>
> I'm going to hope that Mageia's backports have a better track record for me 
> than Mandriva's has. A backport of Firefox 3.6 disabled the help system for 
> Gnucash, just as I was in the middle of trying to learn how to use it, and a 
> backported hplip was a disaster with my printers. To be fair, a backported 
> Gimp upgrade worked just fine, as did a recent VirtualBox. Even so, that's 
> only a 50% success rate, not particularly encouraging.
>
> TJ
>
>
Please see thread on Mageia-dev, related to Thunderbird update strategy for 
Mageia 1.
Subject: thunderbird update for mageia 1: update to 6.0 or go with 3.1 branch?