Firefox ESR package is really needed
Matthias Klose
doko at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 29 15:51:49 UTC 2017
It is my understanding that having a Firefox ESR package in Ubuntu,
- you need to have a distribution agreement with Mozilla.
- you commit to keep the esr packages up to date, bot in development
versions, and at least in LTS releases.
- you use a separate namespace than the firefox packages currently
found in Ubuntu.
If all preconditions above are met, then we probably can remove the blacklist
entry, but I assume that would be an always-merge package.
Matthias
On 29.09.2017 17:43, Marcos Alano wrote:
> 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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