On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-05-03, Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was checking up on different versions of Firefox and noticed that >> there was a new ESR (52) released March 7, 2017. I see that stretch is >> still using ESR 45. >> >> It would be really nice to have this newer version before stretch is >> finalized, but since stretch is now in freeze, I suppose that requires >> some special handling. >> >> I'm curious to know if there has been any discussions about this. > > Debian tracks Firefox ESR releases. So stretch will get version 52 > sometime before the end of life of version 45, regardless of its > (stretch's) release date. This is a rare exception to the "stable" > aspect of Debian releases.
Thank you. I was under the impression that firefox-esr in debian only tracked one specific ESR, though still receiving the upstream updates.
