Firefox ESR package is really needed

Marcos Alano marcoshalano at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 15:43:47 UTC 2017


What is the difference between keep the latest release and a ESR
release? ESR someday was a latest release.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Olivier Tilloy
<olivier.tilloy at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Nrbrtx <nrbrtx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all!
>>
>> Do you have any news about packaging Firefox ESR in supported Ubuntu?
>
> This has been discussed this week in New York, and the desktop team
> doesn't have the resources to commit to packaging and maintaining
> Firefox ESR, unfortunately.
>
>
>> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Logan Rosen <logan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Matthias, it looks like you added firefox-esr to the sync blacklist from
>>> Debian in this commit. Can you please shine some light on why this change
>>> was made? Thanks!
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Nrbrtx <nrbrtx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Ubuntu developers!
>>>>
>>>> For enterprise Ubuntu users Firefox ESR is needed.
>>>> It does not change too fast and support old "LEGACY" extensions.
>>>>
>>>> This problem was discussed at least twice on AskUbuntu (see
>>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/305199/is-there-a-deb-package-to-install-firefox-esr
>>>> and
>>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/505895/how-can-i-install-an-older-version-of-firefox-in-ubuntu-14-04
>>>> ).
>>>> There is a bug about this problem on Launchpad (see
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1676164).
>>>>
>>>> For example in Windows my organization uses Firefox ESR.
>>>> We do not need bells and whistles, we need to do our work with stable
>>>> user experience and without security vulnerabilities.
>>>>
>>>> Debian already has Firefox ESR (see
>>>> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&exact=1&searchon=names&keywords=firefox-esr)
>>>> for all supported versions.
>>>>
>>>> Please add these packages to all supported Ubuntu versions.
>>>> You may want to use bleeding edge version as default, but please add
>>>> firefox-esr package too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With best regards,
>>>> Norbert.
>>>>
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>>>
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