Hi Micah,
As I said, there is many other software that some one could update
safely not just Firefox 4. It's not a matter of one or two Apps, please
read the Draft
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/damascene/Decentralized%20Ubuntu%20Repository
??? ???????? 13 ?????? 2011 08:05, ??? Micah Gersten:
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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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