[CentOS-devel] Firefox 1.5.x or 2.x in CentOS 5
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Mar 26 23:39:48 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:34 +0100, Jason_Meers wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > Jason_Meers wrote:
> >> Firefox 1.5 goes end of life in April and will not receive any further
> >> security updates.
> >
> > Where did you come across this info ? do keep in mind that Redhat do
> > have their own people looking at the packages as well - and in most
> > cases are doing the backports and security fixs for most of the distro
> > in house.
> >
> >> Note: Firefox 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability
> >> updates until April 24, 2007. All users are encouraged to upgrade to
> >> Firefox 2.
> >
> > That might be upstream policy, but does not - unless we see specific
> > info to indicate otherwise - reflect on the CentOS / EL distro tree policy.
> >
> > - KB
> >
>
> The quote was taken directly from the mozilla site:
>
> 20th March, 3rd paragraph.
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/news.html#p427
no one is doubting your claim. We're just explaining it is not something
that centos is going to pay attention to unless red hat does.
-sv
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