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On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:03:37PM +0100, Raúl Porcel wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>The mozilla team has decided that the |
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>www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks |
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>from now (18 Mar 2007), that is 1 April 2007. And will be removed after |
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>two weeks from that date, which will be 15 April 2007. |
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>Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards. All |
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>arches have 2.0 series stable, so if you're using 1.5 you should migrate |
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>to 2.0. |
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>@GWN: Please include this in the next GWN. |
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>P.S: No, this is not an April fools joke :) |
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>Thanks. |
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Did upstream stop releasing security updates for for 1.5? |
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Because if they still support them, it would be nice to keep |
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that supported for a little longer. |
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2.x just uses more memory here (I don't mean the page cache etc) |
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and doesn't really offer any benefit to me. I use 1.5 with large |
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page caches (fastback and similar stuff) and it still doesn't waste |
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memory like the 2.x releases do. |
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I don't really think i'm the only one: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172621 |
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I think that bug got interpreted the wrong way. No one expexted |
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Gentoo to fix the issue. It was a simple request to not drop 1.5 |
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yet because there are issues with 2.x |
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Of course all this is only considerable if upstream still fixes |
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security issues for 1.5, otherwise i agree that it's too much |
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work to support it. |
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Christian |
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