Where's FireFox 1.0?

Brian Barr barr at coastal.ufl.edu
Mon Nov 22 20:38:38 UTC 2004


Colin Watson wrote:

> > The problem with taking an approach of not doing updates is that when
> > major releases occur, like firefox 1.0 (or thunderbird 1.0 when that
> > happens), is that people "jump ship" to the latest distro that has
> > feature X. If Ubuntu wants to keep their momentum, it would be helpful
> > to at least provide an unstable release area for major application
> > releases.
>
> That's what Hoary is for.


I thought that was what apt-pinning was for?  Or is this not possible/desirable with Ubuntu? (...and if not, why?)

Link on howto apt-pin:
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

-- 
Sincerely,
Brian




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