Bryan J. Smith wrote:
For those that were not aware, Firefox was rebased to 3.6.4:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0501.html
Firefox 3.0 has been dropped by upstream for many months now., and
a rebase -- while typically avoided -- must have been required to
ensure security.
As a result of the new security policy of mozilla, that relatively soon
drops support for old releases, at least Ubuntu has decided to track
upstream more closely rather than backporting fixes. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/FirefoxNewSupportModel
"""
In short or long term firefox is expected to move to a changed branch
policy; this most likely will involve even shorter support for stable
release branches. Numbers discussed are: 4-6 weeks for minor
security/stability updates and 4-6 month for major version updates; at
the same time security/stability support for old branches will be dropped.
In consequence, using our "old" way of backporting patches for firefox
becomes more and more unfeasible. The risks of incurring distribution
regressions is high, while the win is debatable.
"""
Does Redhat have similar plans for firefox in RHEL (and perhaps Fedora too)?
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Janne Blomqvist
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