Updates of Hoary

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Thu Jul 21 12:25:02 UTC 2005


On do, 2005-07-21 at 12:45 +0200, Arjan Geven wrote:
> On 7/21/05, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> > On do, 2005-07-21 at 12:46 +0300, Stelian Iancu wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just wanted to ask what exactly is the official policy of updates for
> > > Hoary? I can see that Mozilla released 2 new versions of Firefox, 1.0.5
> > > and 1.0.6, and none of them are in Ubuntu. And, as far as I could see,
> > > these are security updates. Does it just take a longer time?
> > 
> > 1.0.6 is in breezy already, a patched firefox has hit the archives for
> > hoary too today. Read the changelog to see why it takes so long: too
> > many errors and patches that re-introduce bugs.
> 
> I guess this would be in Security Updates then? Or is it only in
> Backports? 1.0.6 has been released by Mozilla what, two days ago?  I
> can't say that updates are very slow in Ubuntu, at all :-).

In security updates indeed, this includes at least 1.0.5 patches (dunno
about 1.0.6 actually).
-- 
Dennis K.
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