Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:15:41 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Florian Smeets <flo@freebsd.org> Cc: gecko@freebsd.org, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, Beat Gaetzi <beat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a plea: please don't deprecate FF 3.6 yet Message-ID: <20120323091541.GA42601@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F6B5C67.1040009@freebsd.org> References: <20120316094753.GA73354@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <CAJTLrNy9F5i=ijSbtcAy-5TY3L%2B82fx9MCqUOtr3TD2x9cShGA@mail.gmail.com> <4F6B5C67.1040009@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 06:07:51PM +0100, Florian Smeets wrote: > On 16.03.2012 11:13, Beat Gaetzi wrote: > > 2012/3/16 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>: > >> I'm on ia64, and www/firefox doesn't build. > >> www/firefox36 is about the only full featured > >> browser that does build on ia64. > > > > As far as I know not only ia64 is affected by the deprecation > > of Firefox 3.6. I know that PowerPC is no longer supported > > in newer versions of Firefox. I don't know the current status > > of Firefox on sparc64 but I assume that it currenty doesn't > > build. > > > >> I've several open bug reports with mozilla: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638056 > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647830 > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683879 > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729447 > > > > Thanks, for opening these bugreports! > > > >> I understand it's a pain to keep obsolete > >> software in ports, and I'm trying to find > >> a newer alternative. However, with the current > >> pace of version numbers in mozilla project, FF12 > >> might be coming out tomorrow, and I'm not ready > >> to migrate from 3.6 yet. > > > > Firefox 3.6 will be end-of-life on April 24th. My intention was > > to remove it with the relase of Firefox 12 as at that point > > upstream no longer provides security updates and I like to > > avoid having vulnerable software in the portstree which is > > no longer maintained (yes, we also have to update libxul as > > the current version is based on Firefox 3.6...). > > > > Flo, whats your opinion on this? > > > > I agree that we should remove firefox36 as soon as the first > vulnerability is announced that Mozilla won't fix. Currently Beat and I > can barely keep up with keeping all the gecko ports up to date. We have > very little time to fix/improve things already, so we are not in a > position to start applying security fixes to deprecated ports. > > We should concentrate on making www/firefox-esr (once it's in the tree) > work on as many platforms as possible. I understand. As a user, I do appreciate your work on gecko ports. Many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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