Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:11:19PM -0400, Eldo Varghese wrote:

> > 2) We do security patches, not updating to the latest versions.
> I have always wondered about this, why do we backport security patch to 
> the same branch? for example 1.5.0.7 patch backported to 1.5.0.4, why 
> not just use 1.5.0.7

Because we've had repeated incidents where 1.foo.x+1 broke things that 
worked fine in 1.foo.x. This is somewhat less than ideal when trying to 
provide security updates.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org