Re: Firefox ESR EOL
On 12/9/21 18:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 04:37:18PM +0000, Tixy wrote:
>> On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 14:18 +0000, piorunz wrote:
>>> On 09/12/2021 12:47, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Piotr,
>>>>
>>>> a new release of Firefox ESR was uploaded to Sid two days ago and
>>>> probably will be uploaded to stable soon.
>>>>
>>>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox-esr&suite=sid
>>>
>>> ESR 91 was first uploaded to sid in November. It didn't migrated to
>>> Testing, or Stable, due to problems. Package tracker show some details:
>>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
>>>
>>> There is a bug here:
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001234
>>>
>>> Rust compiler for Stable is not available? It means we have to continue
>>> to use outdated, vulnerable Firefox ESR until this is resolved? When it
>>> will be?
>>
>> Think it's more complicated than just a compiler [1]
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I've just installed ESR 91
>> direct from Firefox, as it seems Debian are likely to leave us with an
>> insecure browser for a long time. Considering this was known about
>> before the last release, you would have thought we would have been
>> warned about it in the release notes, or through some other means.
>>
>> The only mention of Firefox in the release notes is...
>>
>> For general web browser use we recommend Firefox or Chromium.
>> They will be kept up-to-date by rebuilding the current ESR
>> releases for stable.
>>
> Work on this is nearing completion.
>
> Please note that Mozilla is constantly updating to newer rustc and LLVM
> versions. That means that preparing a new major ESR release for Debian
> requires not just the packaging of the firefox-esr and thunderbird
> updates, but also some very complex toolchain components. Those
> components are usually already in unstable/testing, but for stable,
> oldstable, and LTS, the toolchain must be backported first.
>
As far as I know Ubuntu has no such problem with Firefox.
Kind regards
Georgi
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