Hi, Am 18.09.19 um 15:28 schrieb Manfred Hollstein:
with Mozilla jumping the gun:
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/17/moving-firefox-to-a-faste...
_I_ really doubt this will be working out well. Trouble is, we cannot decide on a package _name_ basis, which one to install. Currently we have (according to https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/x86_6...):
- MozillaFirefox-68.1.0-7.1.x86_64.rpm (which is *ESR*) - MozillaFirefox-69.0-6.1.x86_64.rpm (which is *not* _ESR_)
According to rpm's versioning idea, it would up(date,grade) an ESR installation to a _non_ ESR installation. While this might not be a burning issue with Tumbleweed (as there is _no_ ESR for Tumbleweed due to the identical package name topic), and also since there is no official ESR version for Tumbleweed at all, considering Tumbleweed for a distribution aimed to be usable on a daily basis, MozillaFirefox should remain stable - which I honestly doubt for a "4 week release cycle", and this is why I post this e-mail here.
@Wolfgang: what do you think about this upcoming challenge?
So yes this puts additional workload on us I think. There are not so many options though. My very quick opinion is that Tumbleweed should still stay on the regular release also with 4 week cycles. The amount of changes within a cycle will go down so I do not see that much of a bigger risk. There is actually a problem I see upcoming which is support of 2nd-tier platforms for Factory/Tumbleweed. Just now with the 68.1 and 69.0 releases we have put back (aka synced up with SLE patches) to support the platforms supported with SLE. In that pace I fear that at least I won't be able to make sure platform support stays intact. So what could (and probably should) be discussed is if we need a Factory/TW version of ESR. In that case with a different package name. In the mozilla repo I used to provide a few years ago an alternative package called firefox-esr where it was easy to switch between the different streams. This is an option to do for Factory/Tumbleweed as well. This will give users the choice which variant to run but on the other hand it's again a bit more work. While not that much because I'm preparing both versions anyway in the mozilla repo. It would just be another package name. So overall I still think it's feasible to achieve but it will cause (at least) a bit more work and I'm curious about opinions if we want to have an official ESR option in Tumbleweed. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org