Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Tuesday 07 July 2020 12:32:39 John Hasler wrote:

> Gene writes:
> > I'd tend to look at it like this: If the banks IT people think its a
> > big enough risk to use the old version, and demands the new one even
> > before the paint is dry, then it must be pretty serious and the
> > distros should turn up the heat to get it out into the users hands
> > asap.
>
> More likely it's just a policy of always requiring the latest version
> so that they don't have to actually think about it.  Besides, it may
> support a new widget that the Web designers simply *must* add to the
> site ASAP.
>
> > Not sit on it till the next release a year hence as seems to happen
> > now, using the excuse that it is a new feature and that has to wait
> > for the next chapter of the release cycle.
>
> That's what Backports is for.

And the 'deb' line in sources.list for stretches backports is?

Thanks John.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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