Re: Keeping firefox up to date
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:44:58 -0400 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
wrote:
> On Monday 15 August 2016 11:23:17 Curt 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).
> >
> > 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.
>
> Ditto with synaptic.
All I ever got with apt-get is ERR 404 Not Found for mozilla.debian
repo. But I don't use Gnome or any desktop for that matter. Just a
window manager Openbox.
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