Updates of Hoary

Arjan Geven arjangeven at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 10:45:25 UTC 2005


On 7/21/05, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> On do, 2005-07-21 at 12:46 +0300, Stelian Iancu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just wanted to ask what exactly is the official policy of updates for
> > Hoary? I can see that Mozilla released 2 new versions of Firefox, 1.0.5
> > and 1.0.6, and none of them are in Ubuntu. And, as far as I could see,
> > these are security updates. Does it just take a longer time?
> 
> 1.0.6 is in breezy already, a patched firefox has hit the archives for
> hoary too today. Read the changelog to see why it takes so long: too
> many errors and patches that re-introduce bugs.

I guess this would be in Security Updates then? Or is it only in
Backports? 1.0.6 has been released by Mozilla what, two days ago?  I
can't say that updates are very slow in Ubuntu, at all :-).




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