Fixed top post On 04/12/2011 11:37 PM, Usama Akkad wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote: >>> On Saturday, October 30, 2010 02:35:21 pm Usama Akkad wrote: >>>> Wa alaikum alsalam, >>>> Bilal this is different from backports. for example Filezilla and Deluge >>>> have no problem have more recent release on windows than Linux. You >>>> already trust the developers of such applications. Why not help them >>>> reach the users directly under your supervision as Ubuntu. >>>> >>>> You might say any one can create such a repo. Yes but it would hardly be >>>> in the Ubuntu way. >>> >>> We had some sessions on this at UDS and are working to make the path smoother >>> for upstreams to get new versions of existing packages to users more quickly >>> nad easily via adjustments to the Backports Project. So this is exactly >>> backports. >>> >>> Scott K > Hi again, > Is there any progress on this subject? Where we can read more about > your work on adjusting the Backports Project? > > I want to have firefox 4 on Lucid which I'm planing to keep till 2013 > and there is many other software that some one could update safely > Thanks, > > Decentralized Ubuntu Repository Draft > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/damascene/Decentralized%20Ubuntu%20Repository >
You can get the latest Firefox stable release here: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable We'll upgrade Lucid to whichever Firefox is current when its version's branch (3.6) is EOL. Micah
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