Re: Keeping firefox up to date
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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