On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on > >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will > >> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the > >> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get > >> firefox-esr. > > > > Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy either. > > Why should Firefox be any different? I suspect that support will > > stop next year or so when Long Term Support for Wheezy ends. The > > consequences of "progress." > > > > B > > > > I should expect Firefox-esr to be maintained on Wheezy for the > extended life of Wheezy (coming as it does from the > http://security.debian.org/ repository).
Wheezy extended support goes to 31 May 2018 (I checked). So, at least, we'll get bug and security fixes 'til then. Now, as to major number upgrades ... Firefox-Release 47.0.1 is the last for Wheezy even though it's at 48 in Jessie. Haven't read anything about ESR45. > We Wheezy people no longer have any reason to keep mozilla.debian.net > in our sources.list (if I'm understanding this all correctly), as > release is no longer available. In fact, I believe it's making my > little gnome-updater thingamajig freak out. I removed mozilla.debian (was getting ERR 404 Not Found, anyway) after I discovered Release (up to 47.0.1 anyway) and ESR are both in the security.debian repo. However, ultimately there will come a time when Wheezy is considered too old to continue to support. That should be around 31 May 2018, I suspect. B
