[Bug 68158] Re: Firefox 2.0

[Martin Meredith]

Hi there Douglas.

As John's stated, it's not possible to backport firefox without
backporting a lot of different applications with it.

These applications depend on having certain versions of system libraries
in certain places.

The way backports works is to update packages and replace them, not to
have packages that work along side them.

Because of this it is impossible to backport firefox without backporting
a massive chain of packages (188 packages to be precise)

I do not believe you will find any member of the backports team who is
willing to do that.

As stated above, it is easy to run Firefox 2 alongside the package in
ubuntu, and this does not affect your system.

However, there is always the chance that when 2.0 is known to fix
security issues in 1.5, 2.0 will be uploaded to -security

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Firefox 2.0
https://launchpad.net/bugs/68158