Hello Sebastian, On 09/04/2017 08:20 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > The desktop team has been suggesting to remove firefox from those > architectures because we don't have the resources to work on those build > issues and we believe there are little benefit to have firefox available > on e.g ppc64el but that request has been rejected by the foundation team > who said they would help to resolve the build issue so we are still > waiting on that. > > In summary, there is no point moving the topic to another list. If you > want to help either work on a fix for the build issue or try to convince > foundations than most of our firefox users are on i386/amd64 and that if > we don't have the resources to deal with build issues in timelined > fashion (which experience from the previous cycles suggest) then we are > better off having firefox uptodate on those architectures only than > staying outdated for most of the cycle for the benefit of architectures > who don't have actual desktop users.
So then what happens with stable releases? I would much rather have an out-of-date firefox on devel if it means it's working for release for most arches. I say this because Lubuntu 16.04 users on PowerPC or Lubuntu users on the Raspberry Pi 3* will not have an up-to-date Firefox (see: security issues). From the point of view of Lubuntu Release Manager, I don't like that option. I don't personally know enough about Firefox (otherwise we'd have ALSA support) to help with this, but I would if I could (maybe I can look more as to what's involved). But I think I can speak for the many users of Lubuntu on PowerPC (16.04) and the Pi 3 when I say that this really should not be an option. Even if it's not me, I really really hope someone will step up to help with this. If anyone wants statistics, I can gather some. *Ubuntu MATE ships PowerPC 16.04 images and Raspberry Pi 3 images as well. -- Simon Quigley [email protected] tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
