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Date:      Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:56:12 +0300
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
Cc:        Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: f6826de8fbdf - main - www/firefox: update to 107.0 (rc2)
Message-ID:  <Y3JlHIDbvPMpHoSX@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <Y2/8V0jut0Thzck4@elch.exwg.net>
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* Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt@burggraben.net) wrote:

> > > And for the minors often there's only one rc, which then becomes GA,
> > > and I don't want package churn for no-ops.
> > 
> > Do we really need rc's packaged then?
> 
> The idea is that we get the bugfixes (most often security stuff)
> earlier - also to give the package builders a head start (everyone
> else gets packages built by upstream before release day, and we
> have our own package cluster).
> For the majore releases, we could spot and fix FreeBSD-specific
> problems before GA - at least in theory, as I do not have that much
> time for that, and most problems these days are self-inflicted by
> the users, anyways.

Okay then, the current way of firefox packaging looks reasonable.
Thank you for explanation!

-- 
Dmitry Marakasov   .
amdmi3@amdmi3.ru  ..:  https://github.com/AMDmi3  https://amdmi3.ru/




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