On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 davidson wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 Gary Dale wrote:
On 2020-07-07 09:57, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:45:56AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
I did install it and it is a single package. It runs fine in
parallel with the esr release. Hopefully the maintainers will
continue the practice of having firefox and firefox_esr available
and bring it to Testing.
You don't understand what testing *IS*!
Testing is not a "rolling release".
Testing is not a thing you use because it makes you cooler.
Testing is not a thing you use because it has higher version
numbers of packages, and the sum of all the package version numbers
is your score, and having a higher score makes you win the game.
Testing is not a thing you use because you're an immature child who
thinks any package more than a year old is, like, TOO OLD TO BE
USED BY ANYONE, like ohmygod.
Testing is the NEXT STABLE RELEASE.
Testing is what will become Debian 11, bullseye, in a year or two.
When bullseye is stable, it will not have an unstable firefox package.
When bullseye is stable, it will have firefox-esr, which is a
stable package (or as close as you can get with a browser), because
it is a stable release.
Therefore, testing has firefox-esr.
You run testing because you want to help TEST THE NEXT STABLE
RELEASE, so that you can find bugs in it and report them, and get
them fixed before the release.
Because they sure as hell will not be fixed AFTER the release.
This is your one and only chance.
If you are the kind of person who MUST HAVE THE LATEST THING, then
Debian is not meant for you.
This includes browsers.
The package maintainers are who make packages stable, not the
product developers.
People who run testing and report bugs make a significant contribution
to the stability of stable, don't you think?
There is nothing to prevent a none-esr version of Firefox from
making it into stable. The maintainers just need to install the
bug fix patches created to fix the bugs in that particular version.
People who run testing and report bugs make a significant contribution
to the stability of stable, don't you think? (Déjà vu!)
I should add: It seems to me your wishlist proposal entails that
certain resources --both the work of maintainers, and the population
of debian testers prone to use Firefox-- which at present are directed
toward the release cycle of a single package, will henceforth be split
between two packages.
Do you think this is true?
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