[Lunar-commits] <moonbase> firefox4: removed because it is not security supported - use firefox5

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

> Is there actually a *good* reason to keep the 'old' firefox version
> alive ? I mean the 3.x.x series? Can't we just move the firefox5
> module into the firefox module? Cause otherwise we will have this
> removing of firefox_x every 6 weeks from now on...

The 'old' Firefox 3.6.18 is actually new: released June 21st, 2011 and 
still maintained (but not for long as Mozilla says). Mainly because of 
extensions which are not firefox5 ready yet. Extensions maniacs would be 
crazy if firefox module would be zdeprecated or updated to firefox5. That 
is why Mozilla and we keep it updating.

It looks Mozilla likes the way Google Chrome is developed: major versions 
bump every 3 months so the problem will be going back from time to time.
The only way to fix it is to create any way of upgrade paths which will 
tell lunar which module is upgrade for removed one.

have a nice day,
Zbigniew Luszpinski

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Duncan Gibson <duncan.gibson at xs4all.nl> 
wrote:
> >> commit f81cfd86a2654eea3338d7ba79b491b481783a82
> >> Author: Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at lunar-linux.org>
> >> Date:   Thu Jun 30 01:22:35 2011 +0200
> >> 
> >>     firefox4: removed because it is not security supported - use
> >> firefox5
> > 
> > Maybe it would have been better if this had been moved to zdeprecated
> > for a while so people had a chance to switch before it was removed.
> > 
> > Or temporarily turn firefox4 into a profile that pulls in firefox5
> > instead.
> > 
> > Sometimes it's a pain in the bum when active modules get deleted or
> > renamed because the next time you 'lunar update' or even just 'lin
> > moonbase' the system has no clue about the old module name any more.
> > 
> > Not everyone is using a moonbase.git and can backtrack while cleaning
> > up.
> > 
> > D.
> > 
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