PackageEndOfLife: firefox-32

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Mon Oct 27 22:09:41 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:49 -0700, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> There is no harm to the user having it installed.  It essentially is a 
>> packaged up shell script that runs setarch i386 before invoking firefox 
>> (though in a backward way).  nspluginwrapper will still work with this 
>> package installed.  So will manually invoking setarch.  There is no 
>> reason anyone needs it installed, but it will not harm anything to have 
>> it installed.
> 
> Actually I'm seeing only one build done of this, and not shipped in F8,
> or any updates, so I don't think this went anywhere except for maybe a
> few rawhide composes way back when.
> 
> Where are you seeing this package come up?

mcepl said he heard from someone who had the package, and didn't know 
that he didn't need it.  If it's not shipped, he must have grabbed it 
from koji or an old rawhide.  Either way, I'm not too worried about it, 
just going by the rulebook for the EOL process.


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