On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:57:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 18:45:16 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > > running software that the Debian Project does not package, and I > > would argue that trying to keep a firefox-esr running is not the > > right thing to do. Firefox just isn't ready for the Debian > > definition of stable. > > > > The Debian volunteers working on Firefox would be better serving > > the community if they were only spending a few minutes packaging > > up each major-number release from Mozilla, and putting the rest > > of the time towards looking for security problems in it. > > > > There may well be a use for a "stable" web browser, but Firefox > > can't be that one. > > I would understand your writing the last sentence with the word > "secure" (though I would wish to know which insecurities you're > troubled by), but not as written here with "stable". I'm finding > stretch's FF Quantum very stable so far. Is this because I don't > use a DE, perhaps?
In the sense of "stable" as Debian "stable": for a period of around 2-3 years, the software at the beginning is about the same as the software at the end, modulo security fixes. Firefox and Chrom[e|ium] are changing too rapidly for that to make sense, in my opinion. Mozilla's own ESR program doesn't even qualify, as they only maintain the release for "more than a year". -dsr-
