Will backports at mozilla.debian.net be reviving regular security updates?

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed Jun 1 23:59:44 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 06:38:29PM -0500, Joe Neal wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> In light of Google's decision to drop support for FF 3.5 in Google
> Apps[1], I'm going to need to upgrade the version of Iceweasel on my
> Squeeze machines. I'm hoping the backports available from
> <http://mozilla.debian.net/> will meet my needs. Is it the intention 
> of the Mozilla maintainers to provide timely security updates to these
> packages?  

I don't plan to do that, I just don't have the time to support that many
versions. Security updates will come 'naturally' through new versions.
When 5.0 is released, there will be an iceweasel-release repository
(like there is iceweasel-aurora and iceweasel-beta at the moment) that
will always contain the latest and most secure version.

Mike



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