On 12/9/21 18:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 04:37:18PM +0000, Tixy wrote: >> On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 14:18 +0000, piorunz wrote: >>> On 09/12/2021 12:47, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Piotr, >>>> >>>> a new release of Firefox ESR was uploaded to Sid two days ago and >>>> probably will be uploaded to stable soon. >>>> >>>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox-esr&suite=sid >>> >>> ESR 91 was first uploaded to sid in November. It didn't migrated to >>> Testing, or Stable, due to problems. Package tracker show some details: >>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr >>> >>> There is a bug here: >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001234 >>> >>> Rust compiler for Stable is not available? It means we have to continue >>> to use outdated, vulnerable Firefox ESR until this is resolved? When it >>> will be? >> >> Think it's more complicated than just a compiler [1] >> >> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I've just installed ESR 91 >> direct from Firefox, as it seems Debian are likely to leave us with an >> insecure browser for a long time. Considering this was known about >> before the last release, you would have thought we would have been >> warned about it in the release notes, or through some other means. >> >> The only mention of Firefox in the release notes is... >> >> For general web browser use we recommend Firefox or Chromium. >> They will be kept up-to-date by rebuilding the current ESR >> releases for stable. >> > Work on this is nearing completion. > > Please note that Mozilla is constantly updating to newer rustc and LLVM > versions. That means that preparing a new major ESR release for Debian > requires not just the packaging of the firefox-esr and thunderbird > updates, but also some very complex toolchain components. Those > components are usually already in unstable/testing, but for stable, > oldstable, and LTS, the toolchain must be backported first. >
As far as I know Ubuntu has no such problem with Firefox. Kind regards Georgi