Re: Proposition: Insert Mozilla Firefox Release in Debian
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes:
> On 2019-07-14 at 22:03, Paul Wise wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 9:57 PM <patrick.dreier@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Please Insert Mozilla Firefox Release in Debian.
>> Mozilla Firefox is available in Debian, the package name is
>> firefox-esr.
> That's the ESR version. I read this as being a request to include the
> "release" version, i.e., mainline non-ESR.
> My understanding is that that's a nonstarter for one reason and another,
> but I don't recall all the specifics involved.
It's there, it's the firefox package. It's just not included in stable
releases because it doesn't get security support for the lifetime of
stable, so doesn't meet our stable guarantees.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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