Re: Firefox ESR EOL

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Nicholas Geovanis wrote: 
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 7:01 AM Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> > Security is the reason why I download and install browser and mail
> > client directly from the vendor, not Debian repositories.
> >
> 
> And you may have heard yesterday a young woman on a separate thread advised
> NOT to do that. With an audio package IIRC. On general Debian
> administration and package management grounds.. No one corrected that
> statement later.

Here's the main thing that people like to forget: When you run a Debian
system, you are in charge of it.

You can do anything you like to it.  You get to live with the
consequences.

If you ask for help here, people will recommend that you do
things in a way which minimizes the likelihood that you will
break more things. You don't have to take that advice. But if
you want more useful help here, you should.

It is absolutely okay to create a FrankenDebian with repos from
testing, unstable, Ubuntu Jovial Jackrabbit and a cronjob that
looks for changes to a webpage somewhere in oracle.com and
automatically downloads and installs a new Java Runtime on
alternate Thursdays, then recompiles the kernel with a
bleeding-edge GLIBC-alternative.

But if you want help with that, you should expect to pay someone
for the privilege of dealing with it.

-dsr-