Firefox ESR package is really needed

[Rico Tzschichholz]

I will give it a try to provide some ubuntu-flavoured firefox-esr builds
in https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa which are
meant to be co-installable with firefox and firefox-trunk.

Rico

Am 01.10.17 um 23:27 schrieb Nrbrtx:
> Thanks to JonathonF - he built latest Firefox ESR 52.4.0. Interested
> users may download it from PPA
> https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Ejonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr> .
> 
> But this is not user-friendly solution.
> 
> Debian already packaged Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (see
> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&exact=1&searchon=names&keywords=firefox-esr
> ).
> 
> Current status of addons porting is indicated here (
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/htmlview#
> ).
> There are lot LEGACY (see
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing
> ) addons.
> November with Firefox 57 (see
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar ) will come very soon.
> 
> I hope that Canonical will find resources for packaging Firefox ESR.
> Enterprise users will be very pleasant.
> 
> With best regards,
> Norbert.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Marcos Alano <marcoshalano at gmail.com
> <mailto:marcoshalano at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:04 PM, James Henstridge
>     <james.henstridge at canonical.com
>     <mailto:james.henstridge at canonical.com>> wrote:
>     > On 29 September 2017 at 11:43, Marcos Alano <marcoshalano at gmail.com <mailto:marcoshalano at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >> What is the difference between keep the latest release and a ESR
>     >> release? ESR someday was a latest release.
>     >
>     > It's not really a question of whether Firefox-ESR is more difficult to
>     > maintain than Firefox.  Rather, the comparison is between the
>     > maintaining Firefox and maintaining both Firefox and Firefox-ESR
>     > simultaneously.
>     >
>     Understood. I think we need to do is ask some tough questions to find
>     a way to finally make available the firefox-esr.
>     Someone already asks a question I think it's very tough: how firefox
>     and firefox-esr can live together? Maybe just a different namespace
>     with /etc/alternatives symlinks. Actually could be a good idea because
>     allows more integration with Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly provided
>     by Mozilla Team. Mozilla Nightly is in a different namespace, but Beta
>     updates the stable version which isn't a good way since I can't test
>     beta without lose stable.
> 
> 
>     > James.
> 
> 
> 
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