On Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 11:37 AM Tixy <t...@yxit.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 14:18 +0000, piorunz wrote:
> > On 09/12/2021 12:47, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Piotr,
> > >
> > > a new release of Firefox ESR was uploaded to Sid two days ago and
> > > probably will be uploaded to stable soon.
> > >
> > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox-esr&suite=sid
> >
> > ESR 91 was first uploaded to sid in November. It didn't migrated to
> > Testing, or Stable, due to problems. Package tracker show some details:
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
> >
> > There is a bug here:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001234
> >
> > Rust compiler for Stable is not available? It means we have to continue
> > to use outdated, vulnerable Firefox ESR until this is resolved? When it
> > will be?
>
> Think it's more complicated than just a compiler [1]
>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I've just installed ESR 91
> direct from Firefox, as it seems Debian are likely to leave us with an
> insecure browser for a long time. Considering this was known about
> before the last release, you would have thought we would have been
> warned about it in the release notes, or through some other means.
>

Thanks, Tixy.  I will, also, install Firefox 91 directly from Firefox [into
my Bookworm test environments].

The only mention of Firefox in the release notes is...
>
>     For general web browser use we recommend Firefox or Chromium.
>     They will be kept up-to-date by rebuilding the current ESR
>     releases for stable.
>
> :-(
>
> [1]
> https://www.google.com/url?q=http://techrights.org/2021/11/10/firefox-esr-91-issues/&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1639153687425000&usg=AOvVaw2wBZnDhgCrL9Id5BzyH5hE
>
> --
> Tixy
>

Kenneth Parker

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