firefox 1.0.5?

[bike_oz]

I think everyone understands that 
a) Security patching needs to be done
b) It does make sense that if new features aren't added the version
number shouldn't change
c) if other apps/sites use the version no. to determine if a product has
a specific capability or fix then this can be very confusing and
non-productive for end users (particularly the less technical ones) to
try and work around.

To me this means there may be a need to do versioning in a different way
to traditional apps that are designed, built and released by one firm.
I'm sure this is too simplistic and therefore not workable in the long
run but maybe open source software should have 2 version numbers. A
security level and a feature level. Then site admins and others can use
either or both numbers where necessary to determine if an application
has the required capabilities.

Regards Russell

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:29 +1000, James Livingston wrote:

> 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 
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