On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:52:29PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 04/08/16 23:02, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 07:50:28PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > >> Hi, > >> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 06:32:14PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > >>> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 11:04:47AM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > >>>> Hello Mike, > >>>> > >>>> Thank you for preparing the security update of firefox-esr. I have just > >>>> sent a security announcement for your update in Wheezy to the > >>>> debian-lts-announce mailing list. If you want to take care of this next > >>>> time, please follow our guidelines which we have outlined at [1]. If > >>>> this is a burden for you, no problem, we will do our best and take care > >>>> of the rest. In this case we would like to ask you to send a short > >>>> reminder to debian-lts, so that we can prepare the announcement in a > >>>> timely manner. > >>> > >>> Heh, I hadn't realized that wasn't handled by standard DSAs, sorry about > >>> that. That these updates go through the same security-master doesn't > >>> help making it obvious they are different. > >>> > >>> Anyways, I'd rather not have more work to do, so if can send > >>> announcements, that works for me. Or you can deal with the backport > >>> from back to back. > >>> > >>> Please note that the next ESR bump (52) will require GCC 4.8, which is > >>> not in wheezy, so I won't be building ESR45 for wheezy past 45.8, > >>> presumably some time in April next year. > >> > >> The same is true for icedove. Since this is way before the end of Wheezy > >> LTS (31st May 2018) I wonder if we should EOL Firefox/Icedove then or > >> try to support this for longer? > >> > >> I have no idea what features of gcc-4.8 would be required, Mike do you > >> know? > > > > Some C++11 features it supports that GCC 4.7 doesn't. > > We may want / need to backport GCC 4.8 to Wheezy then. Chromium is already > unsupported, so it's either that, or leave Wheezy with no supported browsers. > We > probably want the former.
I too think I would be good to support Firefox & Icedove until Wheezy goes EOL. Wd could backport gcc 4.8 from Jessie with only C/C++ enabled. Cheers, -- Guido