Re: Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?
On 2022-08-24 15:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 07:52:44PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
>> Mozilla stops supporting the old ESR a few months after a new one is
>> released [1]. So I assume Debian would ship the new one, certainly at
>> least at the point the old one gets known security vulnerabilities.
>>
>> [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-esr-release-cycle
>
> Yes, this is correct. A current timeline seems to be here:
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
>
> Looking at the ESR column in the first table, 2022-08-23 brought us
> ESR versions 91.13 and 102.2, while 2022-09-20 will have only version
> 102.3.
>
> So, as of Sept. 20th (projected), the 91.x ESR branch will be unsupported,
> and we'll all have to move to the 102.x branch, whether we want it or not.
For Debian stable, I expect Firefox and Thunderbird to move to the 102
branch after the next Bullseye point release, scheduled for September
10[1]. To build them, at least rustc 1.59 is needed, and Bullseye
currently only has version 1.51 (packaged as rustc-mozilla).
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2022/08/msg00006.html
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