Move to a portable app model

Posted Jun 7, 2006 21:51 UTC (Wed) by nlee (guest, #730)
In reply to: Move to a portable app model by madscientist
Parent article: The problem of Firefox in Ubuntu Breezy

You make a very valid point. One response might be, how do we know any backport feature don't break the current set of firefox extensions in the debian archive?

It is a hard choice for Debian. The "unknown" security fixes in the latest and probably forth coming Firefox versions, make things very difficult. I guess this is one of the reasons I prefer Ubuntu for the desktop. They have a tight release cycle.

Move to a portable app model

Posted Jun 7, 2006 21:55 UTC (Wed) by h2 (guest, #27965) [Link] (1 responses)

Not to sidetrack, but this is why I prefer kanotix, it's a direct access to sid, usually not much more than a week goes by before I have the latest tbird or firefox, but at the cost of being in an unstable pool. And it's unstable, no doubt.

The same problems, by the way, exist for konqueror, kmail, to upgrade those you have to upgrade all of kde, so it's actually worse than firefox/tbird.

But significantly less people use those than firefox so it doesn't hit the news in this way.

Move to a portable app model

Posted Jun 8, 2006 12:16 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

The issue here is it now being impossible to separate out changes made upstream that are security fixes and those that aren't. afaik, the problem isn't the same for KDE, because they have a security policy more in-line with Debian's.