What is the difference between keep the latest release and a ESR release? ESR someday was a latest release.
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Olivier Tilloy <olivier.til...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Nrbrtx <nrb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear all! >> >> Do you have any news about packaging Firefox ESR in supported Ubuntu? > > This has been discussed this week in New York, and the desktop team > doesn't have the resources to commit to packaging and maintaining > Firefox ESR, unfortunately. > > >> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Logan Rosen <lo...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>> >>> Matthias, it looks like you added firefox-esr to the sync blacklist from >>> Debian in this commit. Can you please shine some light on why this change >>> was made? Thanks! >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Nrbrtx <nrb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Ubuntu developers! >>>> >>>> For enterprise Ubuntu users Firefox ESR is needed. >>>> It does not change too fast and support old "LEGACY" extensions. >>>> >>>> This problem was discussed at least twice on AskUbuntu (see >>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/305199/is-there-a-deb-package-to-install-firefox-esr >>>> and >>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/505895/how-can-i-install-an-older-version-of-firefox-in-ubuntu-14-04 >>>> ). >>>> There is a bug about this problem on Launchpad (see >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1676164). >>>> >>>> For example in Windows my organization uses Firefox ESR. >>>> We do not need bells and whistles, we need to do our work with stable >>>> user experience and without security vulnerabilities. >>>> >>>> Debian already has Firefox ESR (see >>>> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&exact=1&searchon=names&keywords=firefox-esr) >>>> for all supported versions. >>>> >>>> Please add these packages to all supported Ubuntu versions. >>>> You may want to use bleeding edge version as default, but please add >>>> firefox-esr package too. >>>> >>>> >>>> With best regards, >>>> Norbert. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >>>> ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >> ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- Marcos Alano ---------------------------------------------- P: Por que este email é tão curto? R: http://five.sentenc.es ---------------------------------------------- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop