On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:03:37PM +0100, Raúl Porcel wrote: >Hi, > >The mozilla team has decided that the >www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks >from now (18 Mar 2007), that is 1 April 2007. And will be removed after >two weeks from that date, which will be 15 April 2007. > >Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards. All >arches have 2.0 series stable, so if you're using 1.5 you should migrate >to 2.0. > >@GWN: Please include this in the next GWN. > >P.S: No, this is not an April fools joke :) > >Thanks.
Did upstream stop releasing security updates for for 1.5? Because if they still support them, it would be nice to keep that supported for a little longer. 2.x just uses more memory here (I don't mean the page cache etc) and doesn't really offer any benefit to me. I use 1.5 with large page caches (fastback and similar stuff) and it still doesn't waste memory like the 2.x releases do. I don't really think i'm the only one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172621 I think that bug got interpreted the wrong way. No one expexted Gentoo to fix the issue. It was a simple request to not drop 1.5 yet because there are issues with 2.x Of course all this is only considerable if upstream still fixes security issues for 1.5, otherwise i agree that it's too much work to support it. Christian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
