Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> writes:
Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> writes:
>> It's not the Firefox maintainers, it is Mozilla who have decided that
>> release numbers are irrelevant and that the bug fix release for
>> Firefox 5 is Firefox 6.
>
> If Firefox were following the update policy, they'd backport the security
> fixes, not push the new versions.
Is that actually possible? I seem to recall that the reason why Firefox
can be called Firefox in Fedora, and not, say, Iceweasel or whatever, is
that we ship vanilla upstream.
(Not that this would be sufficient grounds for breaking the policy, of
course.)
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