On 12/9/21 19:09, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 06:59:07PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> On 12/9/21 18:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> >>> Please note that Mozilla is constantly updating to newer rustc and LLVM >>> versions. That means that preparing a new major ESR release for Debian >>> requires not just the packaging of the firefox-esr and thunderbird >>> updates, but also some very complex toolchain components. Those >>> components are usually already in unstable/testing, but for stable, >>> oldstable, and LTS, the toolchain must be backported first. >>> >> >> As far as I know Ubuntu has no such problem with Firefox. >> > Debian also supports additional hardware architectures and the toolchain > components sometimes require specific work in order to support those > additional architectures. In fact, that was the case with this current > update that is underway. > > However, the point is not about arguing which is better, Debian or > Ubuntu. Naturally, Debian is better. > > Rather, the point was simply to offer assurance that this work is > underway and that it is near completion. > > It is lamentable that it has taken this long, but that is not an > indication of a lack of effort on the part of the people in Debian > working on this. >
Hi Roberto thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to offend anybody. I use both - Debian and Kubuntu and like more Debian and I have been using it for almost 2 decades. The idea was that somehow Ubuntu handles well with this problem. This is all I meant. Kind regards Georgi
