[CentOS-devel] Firefox 1.5.x or 2.x in CentOS 5

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