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From: Steev Klimaszewski <steev@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:21:01
Message-Id: 460BD86B.8010603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:50 +0200, Christian Birchinger wrote:
3 >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:23:49PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
4 >>> If you read what you are quoting:
5 >>>
6 >>>>> Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards.
7 >> That's still almost a month + the time no security issues
8 >> appear. This would be still better.
9 >
10 > How is prolonging the inevitable "better" exactly?
11 >
12 > I understand some people's reluctance, but the Mozilla team *knows*
13 > they'll have to remove the 1.5 series sometime on or after April 24th,
14 > anyway. Why should they bother keeping it in the tree?
15 >
16 Because Portage sucks and it is oh so hard to add it into an overlay...
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