Where's FireFox 1.0?

[Erik Bågfors]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:49:24 +0000, vulpes <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
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> Colin Watson Wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:02:28PM +0000, vulpes wrote:
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> > > The problem with taking an approach of not doing updates is that
> > when
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> > > major releases occur, like firefox 1.0 (or thunderbird 1.0 when that
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> > > happens), is that people "jump ship" to the latest distro that has
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> > > feature X. If Ubuntu wants to keep their momentum, it would be
> > helpful
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> > > to at least provide an unstable release area for major application
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> > > releases.
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> >
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> > That's what Hoary is for. Others have already explained why it's not
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> > feasible for us to attempt to provide backports to Warty as well as
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> > working on the next six-monthly release, although interested users are
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> > welcome to do so.
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> >
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> But, Hoary is built against new libraries, right? I do not want my
> entire desktop "unstable" just select applications. Right now, I'm
> building from hoary source against warty libs (like the user who
> submitted the howto to this thread). But, it would be nice to be able
> to just grab these things in binary form.

And you can but it's unsupported. This is what I have in my
/etc/apt/sources.list

## some updated warty packages from Markus Hubig
# Includes, firefox 1.0 + language pack
deb http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ut8g/ubuntu warty-updates main universe
deb-src http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ut8g/ubuntu warty-updates
main universe

I have firefox 1.0 from there, works great.

Even if you use FC you have to use unofficial sources, such as
freshrpms / Dag Wiers repository. So there is really no difference.

There is a big differens as to what is supported in warty and what can
be provided. If you want the latest all the time, run hoary, if you
want stable, use warty, if you want stable but some updates, use warty
with unofficial sources.

I really don't see the difference between ubuntu and FC in this
regards (but in lot's of others where ubuntu just shines :) )

/Erik