On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Martin Stransky wrote:
> On 10/11/2017 03:46 PM, Mátyás Selmeci wrote:
> > On 10/11/17 08:32, Martin Stransky wrote:
> > > On 10/11/2017 03:17 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > > > Was this on purpose? Fx 57 is BETA, and I was under the impression that
> > > > BETA software was for RAWHIDE.
> > >
> > > It's going to be stable in one month. Fx 57 release date is 2017-11-14.
> > >
> > > > Yes, I understand there is an annotation NOT to push Fx 57 to stable -
> > > > but
> > > > I thought that was the purpose of updates testing... software there is
> > > > intended to be tested and pushed to stable.
> > >
> > > I expect the testing repo is used by experienced users who wish to test
> > > software planned for Fedora thus I don't see any problem here.
> > >
> > > > There are many extensions which aren't yet available for Fx 57 - and
> > > > we're
> > > > effectively moving up the timetable by putting it in updates testing.
> > >
> > > Do you think it's better when it suddenly appears on stable at 2017-11-14?
> > > I do not.
> > >
> > > ma.
> >
> > Will an older version (either 56 or the ESR version, 52) also be included in
> > Fedora 27 as a separate package?
>
> No, we (Red Hat Desktop team) will ship Firefox 57 only as well as Mozilla
> does. Of course anyone can create/maintain additional Firefox packages (ESR,
> Developer edition...) for Fedora as I mentioned many times before.
>
> This is also reason why I created this update for testing so early.
The problem is that Fedora 27 is still getting updates from
updates-testing at the moment (until the final freeze scheduled for
2017-10-17) so anyone running dnf update on F27 will get Firefox 57 at the
moment.
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