Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?

[Christopher Aillon]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 10/14/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
>> dragoran wrote:
>> > Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, I pulled in Deer Park alphas and betas this time last year.
>> >> I'll update to the 2.0 RC after FC6 is branched away so that we can
>> >> get it into rawhide.  It just won't hit FC6.
>> >>
>> > are you talking about the FC6 final release or FC6 updates too?
>> >
>>
>> I am not planning to have it in FC6 at all.  But I have FC7 RPMs already
>> available.
>>
>> http://christopher.aillon.org/blog/dev/fedora/20061012-firefox2.html
>>
> 
> So the plan is to backport any security problems found that affect
> 1.5? I am real sorry its just you doing this...


It needs to be done for RHEL anyway.  1.5.0.x is still maintained by 
upstream.  Drivers [1] (of which I'm a member) make sure that only 
necessary fixes get added.


[1] http://www.mozilla.org/about/drivers