Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed
Date	2020-07-07 23:00 +0200
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Gary Dale wrote: 
> There is nothing to prevent a none-esr version of Firefox from making it
> into stable. The maintainers just need to install the bug fix patches
> created to fix the bugs in that particular version. This is exactly what
> they do when significant bugs are found in the stable version of any package
> (in fact, a significant security bug was patched in Stretch/Stable a couple
> of years back that broke things. I had to hold the package back until Buster
> became the new Stable).
> 
> I agree that Mozilla's decision to abandon reasonable numbering is a
> problem. But the esr release is a year old at this point and will be even
> older by the time Bullseye becomes stable.

No, it won't. Mozilla offered 78.0.1esr a few days ago; it is
likely to be the one that goes into Bullseye.

-dsr-

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Firefox non-ESR update needed Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-07-07 00:20 +0200
  Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-07 00:30 +0200
    Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-07-07 05:30 +0200
      Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-07 10:00 +0200
    Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2020-07-07 05:50 +0200
      Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 02:20 +0200
  Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2020-07-07 02:10 +0200
    Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-07-07 05:40 +0200
      Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-07 09:00 +0200
        Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-07-07 15:50 +0200
          Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-07 16:00 +0200
            Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-07 16:10 +0200
              Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-07 16:30 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-08 17:20 +0200
              Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-07 17:40 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-07-07 18:10 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-07-07 18:10 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed  John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-07-07 18:40 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-07-07 19:30 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-07 19:40 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-07-07 19:50 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-07-08 23:20 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-07-07 18:50 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-07-07 19:30 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-07 21:20 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-07 21:40 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-07 23:30 +0200
            Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-07-07 22:30 +0200
              Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-07 22:50 +0200
              Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-07 23:00 +0200
              Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-07-07 23:10 +0200
                Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-07-07 23:50 +0200
              Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 07:20 +0200

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