Re: Firefox ESR EOL

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 12/9/21 19:09, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi Roberto


thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to offend anybody. I use both
- Debian and Kubuntu and like more Debian and I have been using it for
almost 2 decades. The idea was that somehow Ubuntu handles well with
this problem. This is all I meant.

Kind regards
Georgi