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

Lance Davis

lance at centos.org
Tue Mar 27 12:52:20 UTC 2007


On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, seth vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:05 +0100, Jason_Meers wrote:
>
>> Firefox 1.5 goes end of life in April and will not receive any further
>> security updates.
>
>
> Well, I think the version of firefox with centos will be based,
> entirely, on what is being shipped upstream. If upstream backports to
> 1.5.X then centos will stay with 1.5.x. If they upgrade to 2.0, then
> centos will upgrade.
>
> It's a really simple rule to follow:
> - centos follows upstream.

But, as I have already said, that does not prevent us having ff2 in 
CentOSplus, as long as someone is prepared to build and maintain it, that 
someone being one of the CentOS developers ...

Lance

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