Another option could be to ship Fedora 27 with a Firefox 57 prerelease version. This will stop breakage of extensions 2 weeks after Fedora 27 ships (and shipped extensions can be moved to web extension version).
On 13 Oct 2017 12:31 pm, "Peter Oliver" < lists.fedoraproject....@mavit.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Adam Williamson wrote: > > it sounds like downgrading from 56 to 52 >> (the most recent ESR), aside from the epoch bump it'd require on our >> side, is not straightforward (it seems there were profile changes >> between 56 and 52). >> > > Ouch. > > Is now a good time to think about how we could try to avoid getting into a > similar situation again in the future? > > I see that Firefox ESR releases are supported for one year plus twelve > weeks (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/). For > Fedora 27, would it be safer to include Firefox 57 and 58, but then stick > with Firefox 59 ESR from March onwards? > > -- > Peter Oliver > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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