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Re: Keeping firefox up to date

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On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:

> On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on
> >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will
> >> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the
> >> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get
> >> firefox-esr.
> >
> > Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy either.
> > Why should Firefox be any different?   I suspect that support will
> > stop next year or so when Long Term Support for Wheezy ends.   The
> > consequences of "progress." 
> >
> > B
> >
> 
> I should expect Firefox-esr to be maintained on Wheezy for the
> extended life of Wheezy (coming as it does from the
> http://security.debian.org/ repository). 

Wheezy extended support goes to 31 May 2018 (I checked).  So, at least,
we'll get bug and security fixes 'til then.  Now, as to major number
upgrades ...  Firefox-Release 47.0.1 is the last for Wheezy even though
it's at 48 in Jessie.  Haven't read anything about ESR45.

> We Wheezy people no longer have any reason to keep mozilla.debian.net
> in our sources.list (if I'm understanding this all correctly), as
> release is no longer available. In fact, I believe it's making my
> little gnome-updater thingamajig freak out.

I removed mozilla.debian (was getting ERR 404 Not Found, anyway) after I
discovered Release (up to 47.0.1 anyway) and ESR are both in the
security.debian repo.  However, ultimately there will come a time when
Wheezy is considered too old to continue to support.  That should be
around 31 May 2018, I suspect.

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Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-14 21:50 +0200
  Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 22:20 +0200
    Re: Keeping firefox up to date Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 23:40 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 05:10 +0200
  Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-14 22:30 +0200
    Re: Keeping firefox up to date Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 23:40 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-15 00:10 +0200
        Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-15 18:50 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 12:20 +0200
        Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 17:00 +0200
          Re: Keeping firefox up to date Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-08-15 17:30 +0200
            Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 20:50 +0200
              Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
            Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
    Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 05:00 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 12:10 +0200
    Re: jonesasamoah2193_ You_are_PreAppr0ved q1Bj Jones Williams <jonesasamoah2193@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 13:50 +0200

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