On 20 Oct 2010, at 12:54, Chris Coulson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 06:58 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: >> On 20/10/10 00:07, Chris Coulson wrote: >>> >>> Well, the LTS *will* get a new version of Firefox in the future (once >>> 3.6 is end-of-life), although it will most likely skip 4.0. >>> >>> Regards >>> Chris >> no, don't think 10.04 LTS will get a new version of Firefox, however if >> you install 10.04 you will be able to stick with it and upgrade to 12.04 >> LTS without going through the intermediate steps, and 12.04 will have >> shiny new versions of stuff when it comes out. >> >> Alan. > > That's not quite right. Being the maintainer, I can assure you that > Lucid will not be staying on version 3.6 of Firefox forever. > > Regards > Chris
While Chris is right I think it only clouds the issue. The general rule is that once a release is official the only changes are bug fixes. Firefox is one of the exceptions <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions> Generally if you want newer versions of packages you need to enable Backports <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports> Paul -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
