Hi all, I use Raspberry Pies running Debian Stretch (armhf 32-bit) with a custom Linux kernel for both my Desktop and Portable systems. I have been using firefox-esr (with some modifications for speed and security) as a browser so far.
Yesterday's message to debian-security-announce was a bit of a morning shock for me. Namely this part: Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition, the new Firefox packages require Rust to build. A > compatible Rust toolchain has been backported to Debian stretch, but is > not available for all architectures which previously supported the > purely C++-based Firefox packages. Thus, the new Firefox packages > don't support the armel, armhf, mips, mips64el and mipsel architectures > at this point. Apparently lacking enough caffeine, I could not find any relevant discussions about this so far. I did notice that the current version of firefox-esr for armhf is present in sid (but I am loath to run sid on production systems), and that mozilla.org does not seem to distribute any binaries for arm. What's the realistic way forward from here, assuming that I would like a browser with security support? Pull firefox-esr plus dependencies from sid (probably quite intrusive)? Switch to chromium-browser? Switch to another distribution or even a BSD? Or am I overreacting and should just wait a couple of days for (Rust and) Firefox to magically appear in stretch-backports? :) Regards Marc
