Firefox 1.0.x sunset announcement and Breezy

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sun Apr 16 22:49:49 BST 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 23:57 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> On Sunday 16 April 2006 18:44, Matthew East wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:46 +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> > > On 4/16/06, Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Chances are they'll continue to get security patches as necessary but
> > > > that's about it.
> > >
> > > That's correct.
> >
> > John's question was who is going to provide these security patches. It
> > seems like Mozilla will not.
> >
> > ("These releases will include the final set of official security and
> > stability updates for Firefox 1.0.x, Thunderbird 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite
> > 1.7.x.")
> The Ubuntu team presumably.

Avoiding "presuming" was the whole point of John's question. I for one,
like Lukas, find it quite hard to believe that it will be a productive
use of the Ubuntu developers time to learn the intricacies of the
firefox code, and write security patches for it.

Matt
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