Re: Backports needed for Firefox/Thunderbird ESR 68 in Stretch

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 10:45:20PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> Hi,
> Firefox 68 will be the next ESR release series. With the release of Firefox 68.2
> on October 22nd, support for ESR 60 will cease.
> 
> ESR 68 will require an updated Rust/Cargo toolchain and build dependencies not
> present in Stretch (nodejs 8, llvm-toolchain-7, cbindgen and maybe more).
> Stretch was already updated wrt Rust/Cargo for ESR 60, so there's at least no
> requirement to bootstrap stage0 builds this time.
> 
> If we want to continue to have Firefox/Thunderbird supported in oldstable-security
> after October, someone needs to step up to take care of backports to a Stretch point
> release before October 22nd (or in case of poor timing, we can also release build
> dependency updates via stretch-security).

There hasn't been any visible movement on this, so unless someone steps up RSN,
there'll be a headsup about the EOL in the next ESR 60 DSA, so that people
have some advance warning.

Cheers,
        Moritz