Firefox 1.0.x sunset announcement and Breezy

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Monday 17 April 2006 07:14, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 23:57 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 April 2006 18:44, Matthew East wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:46 +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> > > > On 4/16/06, Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Chances are they'll continue to get security patches as necessary
> > > > > but that's about it.
> > > >
> > > > That's correct.
> > >
> > > John's question was who is going to provide these security patches. It
> > > seems like Mozilla will not.
> > >
> > > ("These releases will include the final set of official security and
> > > stability updates for Firefox 1.0.x, Thunderbird 1.0.x and Mozilla
> > > Suite 1.7.x.")
> >
> > The Ubuntu team presumably.
> >
> > Sasha
>
> That's a lot of manpower that could perhaps be used in other more
> productive things...
>
> God bless,
> Lukas
The issue is that its even harder to backport firefox 1.5 to breezy and hoary. 
All the applications that depend on them or any other package which comes 
from their source code would have to be recompiled.

Sasha