Firefox 1.0.x sunset announcement and Breezy

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Monday 17 April 2006 09:10, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 00:51, john levin wrote:
> > Again, yes - I - and I presume many others who use Hoary and Breezy
> > - want to know who is going to take on this Augean task. And also,
> > who is going to take on the task when Firefox 1.5 is no longer
> > maintained by the Mozilla organization, given that Dapper is going
> > to last 3 years on the desktop.
> >
> > What really concerns me isn't that the 1.0 series has come to an
> > end, but that this problem is going to continually arise for as
> > long as there is an Ubuntu and a Firefox.
>
> The solution to this seems rather obvious to me. Dapper will be
> supported for three years - that doesn't mean it will support Firefox
> 1.0 for three years.
>
> When the Mozilla Foundation deprecates Firefox 1.0, Dapper provides an
> upgrade to 1.5. So instead of the user getting a security upgraded
> 1.0, they get 1.5.
>
> Or am I missing something obvious in the thread?
For a start, Dapper has never supported firefox 1.0, it has always been 
firefox 1.5. Second, you are missing something obvious. All applications 
which depend on firefox would have to be recompiled if firefox were to be 
upgraded to 1.5. Also all packages which depend on any other package compiled 
from the firefox source code. This is a massive endeavour.

Sasha