Re: Old Firefox versions discourage real-world testing of Ubuntu development versions

2017-09-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 04.09.2017 21:50, Chris Coulson wrote: There hasn't been a Firefox update on PowerPC on any release since June > 2016 (it's stuck on 47.0), and there isn't going to be any more Firefox> updates on PowerPC because we don't have the rust compiler building there. 52-esr doesn't require rust (n

Re: Old Firefox versions discourage real-world testing of Ubuntu development versions

2017-09-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Chris Coulson wrote: > > *Ubuntu MATE ships PowerPC 16.04 images and Raspberry Pi 3 images as well. > There hasn't been a Firefox update on PowerPC on any release since June > 2016 (it's stuck on 47.0), and there isn't going to be any more Firefox > update

Re: Old Firefox versions discourage real-world testing of Ubuntu development versions

2017-09-04 Thread Chris Coulson
On 04/09/2017 20:18, Simon Quigley wrote: > Hello Sebastian, > > On 09/04/2017 08:20 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> The desktop team has been suggesting to remove firefox from those >> architectures because we don't have the resources to work on those build >> issues and we believe there are litt

Re: Old Firefox versions discourage real-world testing of Ubuntu development versions

2017-09-04 Thread Simon Quigley
Hello Sebastian, On 09/04/2017 08:20 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > The desktop team has been suggesting to remove firefox from those > architectures because we don't have the resources to work on those build > issues and we believe there are little benefit to have firefox available > on e.g ppc64e

Re: Old Firefox versions discourage real-world testing of Ubuntu development versions

2017-09-04 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey there, Le 04/09/2017 à 14:48, Robie Basak a écrit : > I imagine it's the Ubuntu desktop team > who generally would look after this package; they have a separate > mailing list if you'd like to talk to them about their priorities. The desktop team has been suggesting to remove firefox from tho

Re: Old Firefox versions discourage real-world testing of Ubuntu development versions

2017-09-04 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Matt, On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 12:19:28PM -0400, Matt Ruffalo wrote: > Is there a specific policy or technical reason for Ubuntu development > versions to only receive Firefox updates in "proposed" instead of > "release" before a certain point? I think you're quite right to say that this discou

Old Firefox versions discourage real-world testing of Ubuntu development versions

2017-09-04 Thread Matt Ruffalo
Hi all- First, I apologize if I'm not sending this to the right place -- I have no idea who exactly to contact about this, and thought this general mailing list wasn't *too* bad a choice. I use Kubuntu on all of my machines, though the specific flavor of Ubuntu isn't too important in this discuss