From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 21:45:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128E616A5D5 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:45:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rizzo@icir.org) Received: from xorpc.icir.org (xorpc.icir.org [192.150.187.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D8013C4A5 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:45:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rizzo@icir.org) Received: from xorpc.icir.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xorpc.icir.org (8.12.11/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0GLjDSB010062; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:45:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo@xorpc.icir.org) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by xorpc.icir.org (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) id l0GLjDJc010061; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:45:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:45:13 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Torfinn Ingolfsen Message-ID: <20070116134513.A9739@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20070116010645.A94849@xorpc.icir.org> <20070116193722.fee4defe.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20070116110935.A8351@xorpc.icir.org> <20070116221441.9afd899a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20070116221441.9afd899a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>; from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no on Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:14:41PM +0100 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:45:16 -0000 On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: ... > If linux-firefox isn't working for youhere, I really don't have any The 1.5.x version _is_ working for me. It is 2.0.x that exhibits severe problems. My complaint (to get back on the topic) is that 1.5 disappeared from the ports replaced by a less stable version. Sure, we might not know when the port was upgraded, but if experience teaches something, release N+1.0 of something is usually buggier than release N.X of the same software. So i am just advocating to keep the "stable" version around while the "current" one becomes stable enough. After all, in ports we have six versions of openoffice.org, four versions of staroffice, six versions of emacs/xemacs, etc. (not counting language-specific or other versions with minor variations) I understand that having multiple versions of the same thing is less than ideal, but for binary-only things where we have no chance to fix issues with with local patches, it makes a lot of sense. cheers luigi