Re: www/firefox-esr instead of www/firefox[0-9]*

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:46:39PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 10:44:26AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> I don't understand how a single esr name would work.  What happens on
> >> older platforms where that single one doesn't build, and people want the
> >> previous esr?  If they are running an unversioned package, then they
> >> will have no package available, instead of getting an update to the one
> >> they are running.
> >
> > It wouldn't.
> 
> I am not following.  My point is that we have old versions around for
> multiple reasons, and a big one is that the newer version, that in
> theory someone ought to run, doesn't work on their platform.  This is

A second reason is that some complex sites don't work with 'too new'
firefox versions. We have services at work that still don't work
with firefox68, but do with firefox60. So I have both versions installed.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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