The "Debian way"? (was: Firefox - new version for repositories?)

[ulrich steffens]

Am Dienstag, den 07.02.2006, 11:07 +0100 schrieb Colin Brace:
> Sasha wrote:
> 
> > It would not be possible to add it to the repositories. That is not the
> > way debian and debian-based distro's work.
> 
> What do you mean by this? Software in the current repo is not updated?
> 
> --
>   Colin Brace
>   Amsterdam
you have different repos. main, universe and multiverse...

the packages in main recieve security-updates and not necessarily get
updated when new upstream versions are availlable.
universe recieves security-updates, but it's a community based effort
and the amount of packages gives you no guaranty that updates on a
specific package will happen.
but then again, you have the backports repo which tries to satisfy the
needs of more updates on popular packages. the thing with firefox 1.5
is/was that backporting it from dapper would be way too much effort
cause too much packages would have to be updated to make it work the way
it should. on the other hand you have a 6 month release cycle which is
pretty fast and you have more or less recent versions of the
applications.

following the guide in the wiki works pretty sweet in breezy, so there's
not much of an effort to have firefox1.5 in ubuntu. it's a one minute
procedure and bears no risks of damage like using automatix.


ulrich