On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 06:07:51PM +0100, Florian Smeets wrote: > 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 no longer maintained (yes, we also have to update libxul as 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.
I understand. As a user, I do appreciate your work on gecko ports. Many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gecko To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
