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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:42:41
Message-Id: 45FD6B52.2040402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Raúl Porcel kirjoitti:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> The mozilla team has decided that the
6 >> www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks
7 >> from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed
8 >> after two weeks from that date*, which will be *15 April 2007*.
9 >>
10 >
11 > Shouldn't an application as important as Firefox should get the usual
12 > month in package.mask?
13
14 It's not the whole package, just older versions. With most packages, you
15 wouldn't get the notification beforehand that older versions were disappearing.
16
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19 Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>