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Petr Machata pmachata at redhat.com
Thu Aug 25 08:30:59 UTC 2011


Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> writes:

> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at 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.)

PM


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