Firefox 5, reach 11.04?

Thu Jun 23 12:08:52 UTC 2011

This raise up a good question.

Since firefox 4 has reached is EOL [1] and there won't be any additional security update, what about the ubuntu LTS releases?
We cannot have an LTS release without a supported firefox version.

IMAO, FTW firefox "major" updates should be backported to every lts release.
Ubuntu 12.04 will soffer by this problem.

(I leave the question about plugins not supported or not upgraded soon to the mozilla developers :))

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/c6bfb8eb74bc0a04/7a6cdf12dc5db986

Just my 0.02 $

Gianfranco

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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:00:06 +1000
>From: Chris Jones <chrisjones at comcen.com.au>
>To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Firefox 5, reach 11.04?
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>First off, my apologies if someone has asked this already, but I've only
>been skimming over the mailing list lately.
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>Simple question, will Firefox 5 reach Natty 11.04?
>Or will any releases part of the new rapid release cycle from Mozilla be
>held off until 11.10?
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>Regards
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>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:08:44 -0500
>From: Micah Gersten <micahg at ubuntu.com>
>To: Chris Jones <chrisjones at comcen.com.au>
>Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: Firefox 5, reach 11.04?
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>On 06/23/2011 12:00 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
>> First off, my apologies if someone has asked this already, but I've
>> only been skimming over the mailing list lately.
>>
>> Simple question, will Firefox 5 reach Natty 11.04?
>> Or will any releases part of the new rapid release cycle from Mozilla
>> be held off until 11.10?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Chris Jones
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>It's already in natty-updates and natty-security.
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>Thanks,
>Micah
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>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:09:35 -0400
>From: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b at gmail.com>
>To: Chris Jones <chrisjones at comcen.com.au>
>Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: Firefox 5, reach 11.04?
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>On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Chris Jones <chrisjones at comcen.com.au> wrote:
>> Simple question, will Firefox 5 reach Natty 11.04?
>> Or will any releases part of the new rapid release cycle from Mozilla be
>> held off until 11.10?
>
>Already has...
>
>$ apt-cache policy firefox
>firefox:
>  Installed: 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
>  Candidate: 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
>  Version table:
>*** 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 0
>        500 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive/
>natty-updates/main i386 Packages
>        500 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive/
>natty-security/main i386 Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     4.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
>        500 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive/
>natty/main i386 Packages
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>Message: 4
>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:13:35 +1000
>From: Chris Jones <chrisjones at comcen.com.au>
>To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: Firefox 5, reach 11.04?
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>On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Chris Jones <cjlinuxfox at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Chandru <chandru.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The update is available in the repos.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Chandra Sekar.S
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>Ok, now I just feel like an idiot. Posting to this mailing list from FF5 now
>through Gmail.
>
>I updated aptitude and then performed update and it came through. I probably
>should have tried that before I started ranting on the mailing list.
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>Sorry for bothering everyone.
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>Cheers
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