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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Important: NSS + Firefox + Thunderbird + Seamonkey + Icecat + Xulrunner
From:       drago01 <drago01 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-01-24 20:13:09
Message-ID: CAMqY-Fc+-yAGEVndKc+14YZVnFHbMQmGHFU823D6VHvV8nUZbw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@robertoragusa.it> wrote:
> On 01/21/2017 04:15 PM, Kai Engert wrote:
>> On Sat, 2017-01-21 at 15:47 +0100, Christian Dersch wrote:
>
>> The current Firefox 50.x will go unsupported on Tuesday, replaced by Firefox 51.
>> Usually new important security fixes are contained in the new Firefox update.
>
> Going unsupported upstream is not the end of the world.
> If we keep 50.x for a few days, worst case scenario is to have to address
> a fresh critical security vulnerability and then you have two
> possible option:
> 1) rush to 51.x (with good reason, this time)
> 2) backport any fix to 50.x even if upstream does not (this was once normal way
> to maintain packages)

3) Temporary bundle nss (like has been suggested in this thread before)
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