firefox 1.0.5?

[James Livingston]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 00:43 +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> Also, is there a sensible reason not to just bump the firefox 
> packages up to the latest versions rather than backporting all
> the time? It would make it so much easier to check if you were
> up to date.

Two main reasons: a) the new versions of Firefox contain new features,
which themselves could contain new security holes and b) if this got
done for Firefox, why not every other package in Ubuntu?


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston 
-- 
Finding a needle in a haystack is a lot easier if you burn down the
haystack and scan the ashes with a metal detector. 
    -- the Silicon Valley Tarot (another one nicked from David Rush)
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