Re: Firefox ESR EOL
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 06:59:07PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> On 12/9/21 18:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
Debian also supports additional hardware architectures and the toolchain
components sometimes require specific work in order to support those
additional architectures. In fact, that was the case with this current
update that is underway.
However, the point is not about arguing which is better, Debian or
Ubuntu. Naturally, Debian is better.
Rather, the point was simply to offer assurance that this work is
underway and that it is near completion.
It is lamentable that it has taken this long, but that is not an
indication of a lack of effort on the part of the people in Debian
working on this.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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