On 16.03.2012 11:13, Beat Gaetzi wrote: > 2012/3/16 Anton Shterenlikht <[email protected]>: >> I'm on ia64, and www/firefox doesn't build. >> www/firefox36 is about the only full featured >> browser that does build on ia64. > > As far as I know not only ia64 is affected by the deprecation > of Firefox 3.6. I know that PowerPC is no longer supported > in newer versions of Firefox. I don't know the current status > of Firefox on sparc64 but I assume that it currenty doesn't > build. > >> I've several open bug reports with mozilla: >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638056 >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647830 >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683879 >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729447 > > Thanks, for opening these bugreports! > >> I understand it's a pain to keep obsolete >> software in ports, and I'm trying to find >> a newer alternative. However, with the current >> pace of version numbers in mozilla project, FF12 >> might be coming out tomorrow, and I'm not ready >> to migrate from 3.6 yet. > > Firefox 3.6 will be end-of-life on April 24th. My intention was > to remove it with the relase of Firefox 12 as at that point > upstream no longer provides security updates and I like to > avoid having vulnerable software in the portstree which is > no longer maintained (yes, we also have to update libxul as > the current version is based on Firefox 3.6...). > > Flo, whats your opinion on this? >
I agree that we should remove firefox36 as soon as the first vulnerability is announced that Mozilla won't fix. Currently Beat and I can barely keep up with keeping all the gecko ports up to date. We have very little time to fix/improve things already, so we are not in a position to start applying security fixes to deprecated ports. We should concentrate on making www/firefox-esr (once it's in the tree) work on as many platforms as possible. Florian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gecko To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
