Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:03:37PM +0100, Raúl Porcel wrote: Hi, The mozilla team has decided that the www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks from now (18 Mar 2007), that is 1 April 2007. And will be removed after two weeks from that date, which will be 15 April 2007. Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards. All arches have 2.0 series stable, so if you're using 1.5 you should migrate to 2.0. @GWN: Please include this in the next GWN. P.S: No, this is not an April fools joke :) Thanks. Did upstream stop releasing security updates for for 1.5? Because if they still support them, it would be nice to keep that supported for a little longer. 2.x just uses more memory here (I don't mean the page cache etc) and doesn't really offer any benefit to me. I use 1.5 with large page caches (fastback and similar stuff) and it still doesn't waste memory like the 2.x releases do. I don't really think i'm the only one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172621 I think that bug got interpreted the wrong way. No one expexted Gentoo to fix the issue. It was a simple request to not drop 1.5 yet because there are issues with 2.x Of course all this is only considerable if upstream still fixes security issues for 1.5, otherwise i agree that it's too much work to support it. Christian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
Christian Birchinger kirjoitti: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:03:37PM +0100, Raúl Porcel wrote: Hi, The mozilla team has decided that the www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks from now (18 Mar 2007), that is 1 April 2007. And will be removed after two weeks from that date, which will be 15 April 2007. Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards. All arches have 2.0 series stable, so if you're using 1.5 you should migrate to 2.0. @GWN: Please include this in the next GWN. P.S: No, this is not an April fools joke :) Thanks. Of course all this is only considerable if upstream still fixes security issues for 1.5, otherwise i agree that it's too much work to support it. Christian If you read what you are quoting: Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:23:49PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: If you read what you are quoting: Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards. That's still almost a month + the time no security issues appear. This would be still better. Christian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:50 +0200, Christian Birchinger wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:23:49PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: If you read what you are quoting: Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards. That's still almost a month + the time no security issues appear. This would be still better. How is prolonging the inevitable better exactly? I understand some people's reluctance, but the Mozilla team *knows* they'll have to remove the 1.5 series sometime on or after April 24th, anyway. Why should they bother keeping it in the tree? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:50 +0200, Christian Birchinger wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:23:49PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: If you read what you are quoting: Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards. That's still almost a month + the time no security issues appear. This would be still better. How is prolonging the inevitable better exactly? I understand some people's reluctance, but the Mozilla team *knows* they'll have to remove the 1.5 series sometime on or after April 24th, anyway. Why should they bother keeping it in the tree? Because Portage sucks and it is oh so hard to add it into an overlay... /me runs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
Raúl Porcel kirjoitti: Hi, The mozilla team has decided that the www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed after two weeks from that date*, which will be *15 April 2007*. Shouldn't an application as important as Firefox should get the usual month in package.mask? Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
Petteri Räty wrote: Raúl Porcel kirjoitti: Hi, The mozilla team has decided that the www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed after two weeks from that date*, which will be *15 April 2007*. Shouldn't an application as important as Firefox should get the usual month in package.mask? It's not the whole package, just older versions. With most packages, you wouldn't get the notification beforehand that older versions were disappearing. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
Andrew Gaffney kirjoitti: Petteri Räty wrote: Raúl Porcel kirjoitti: Hi, The mozilla team has decided that the www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed after two weeks from that date*, which will be *15 April 2007*. Shouldn't an application as important as Firefox should get the usual month in package.mask? It's not the whole package, just older versions. With most packages, you wouldn't get the notification beforehand that older versions were disappearing. Good point. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
Petteri Räty wrote: Raúl Porcel kirjoitti: Hi, The mozilla team has decided that the www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed after two weeks from that date*, which will be *15 April 2007*. Shouldn't an application as important as Firefox should get the usual month in package.mask? Regards, Petteri Ah, you want all the package masked? :P -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
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