On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 08:35:38PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I've upgraded something like six of about 10 personal (Debian 11) > machines. The upgrade process is the easiest and smoothest that > Debian's managed yet. I haven't tried a new install yet, but if you > have a Debian 11 system, my experience so far suggests that the > upgrade process will go smoothly. > > I was annoyed to find that this doesn't - exactly - bump the Firefox > version. You remain trapped in the ESR version, and even though it's > a newer ESR release, it's still FF v102 which Slack will be disabling > in September. We use Slack heavily at work - I could survive without > it running in the browser on my Linux machines, but I'd much rather > not. Further research yielded the suggestion that version 114 will > become ESR in August ... I hope Debian will let that out the gate > before Slack's September deadline, but I wonder if they will. They > don't like big version changes in the middle of a release. I guess > I'll be peering into the backports repository if that's what happens > ... (don't suggest flatpak or snaps, thanks - I avoid those when > possible).
Well at this time I see https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firefox-esr shows that buster, bullseye and bookworm all have version 102 ESR. I believe they will update it as a security update when the ESR moves to a new version. > The only other thing I was really concerned about with Debian's > versioning was Strapi, another work thing. Debian 11 had the ancient > version 12 which the developers at work refused to work with. As > their systems administrator, that caused me major headaches. Debian > has now jumped to version 18 of Strapi. > > Long release cycles are a real mixed blessing ... <sigh> I can't even find a package named strapi in debian. No idea what it is. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
