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They're already done by the Debian people.
by khobragade 3y ago
They're already done by the Debian people.
- mardifoufs 3y agoYeah but that's not necessarily a good thing. Packaged browsers from a package repo don't have the best track record. I mean they are fine but there's a reason why some want their packages to come from the people who actually made the software especially in this case. Does the ESR Debian package support updates without asking for restarts? Granted it matters less for esr but if it avoids the issue , why not.
- sylvestre 3y agoFeels like an excellent track record to me: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr ;) And Mike is also a prolific Firefox developer.
- mardifoufs 3y agoAhhh I wasn't familiar with this package in particular. I just have had a bunch of ... weird issues dues to some quirks in some packaged browsers. Basically it was never a standard install, and it sucked for ironing out issues. Glad to hear the Debian packages are doing great, not surprised either!
- khobragade 3y ago> there's a reason why some want their packages to come from the people who actually made the software Not necessarily either. Think of the Audacity fiasco. We were very comfortable using the Debain package but not their Flatpack and obviously not the snap. I realise I'm replying to a subtext but the context is the same.
- rst 3y agoWell, some Debian derivatives have been moving to .deb alternatives for the current browser -- snap or flatpak -- which may be the reason for them creating "official" .debs for recent releases. (Experience with the snap and flatpak versions has been ... less than completely smooth for some users.) Not sure that's the case for the ESRs yet.
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