Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed
Gary Dale wrote:
> There is nothing to prevent a none-esr version of Firefox from making it
> into stable. The maintainers just need to install the bug fix patches
> created to fix the bugs in that particular version. This is exactly what
> they do when significant bugs are found in the stable version of any package
> (in fact, a significant security bug was patched in Stretch/Stable a couple
> of years back that broke things. I had to hold the package back until Buster
> became the new Stable).
>
> I agree that Mozilla's decision to abandon reasonable numbering is a
> problem. But the esr release is a year old at this point and will be even
> older by the time Bullseye becomes stable.
No, it won't. Mozilla offered 78.0.1esr a few days ago; it is
likely to be the one that goes into Bullseye.
-dsr-
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