On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:52 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 21:40 +0200, Sascha wrote: > > On 06/21/2011 09:00 PM, agraham wrote: > > > On 06/21/2011 07:52 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > > >> <SATIRE> > > >> > > >> Trying to get in the first "What's wrong with Fedora? It's been 15 > > >> minutes since the Mozilla announcement and Firefox 5 isn't in the repos" > > >> comment. > > >> > > >> </SATIRE> > > >> > > > > > > It's there now, sorry for the delay. > > > > > > > Well, I would like to know, if Firefox 5 will generally come into the > > Fedora 15 repos. I searched the devel-ML for this topic the last days, I > > found out that Spot has a fedorapeople-Firefox5-Repo (He had a > > Firefox4-Beta-Repo back in F14 (Or was it 13?) times, too) but nothing > > about Fedora 15 and Firefox 5. I mean, ok, the version number looks > > huge, but actually, this is only a minor release and all distributions > > that ship current Firefox should notice that and therefore upgrade their > > Firefox package. > > > > bodhi-Output: > > > > bodhi -L firefox > > dist-f13-updates-testing firefox-3.6.17-1.fc13 > > dist-f13-updates firefox-3.6.17-1.fc13 > > dist-f13-updates-candidate firefox-3.6.18-1.fc13 > > dist-f14-updates firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14 > > dist-f14-updates-candidate firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14 > > dist-f14-updates-testing firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14 > > dist-f15-updates firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15 > > dist-f15-updates-testing firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15 > > dist-f15-updates-candidate firefox-4.0-3.fc15 > > > > > > > This is an excellent question, and it will partly depend on whether > Mozilla's upstream plans for maintaining older versions. One of the > advantages to their schedule for major releases was that we could > reasonably assume that they'd be supporting a major release for the full > 13-month lifecycle of a Fedora release. I can't find at a quick search > right now any statements on how long they plan to support Firefox 3.6, > 4.x or 5.x. > > I find it hard to believe that upstream will want to support releases on > their new schedule for thirteen months. Their current plan is to release > version 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 all within 2011. It would be a support > nightmare on their part to continue support beyond security fixes for > more than two or three releases continuously, which pretty much implies > that at some point Fedora will need to update mid-life in order to > retain support. It appears that Mozilla upstream is going to force our hand here. Apparently, Mozilla declared Firefox 4 EOL alongside the release of Firefox 5 [1]. This is going to cause a lot of pain, especially with regards to extensions. [1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support
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