Bug 32394 - Backport Firefox 115 for Mageia 8
Summary: Backport Firefox 115 for Mageia 8
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: 8
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: High normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
QA Contact: Sec team
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Depends on: 30907
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Reported: 2023-10-16 09:32 CEST by Olivier FAURAX
Modified: 2024-01-07 21:27 CET (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Olivier FAURAX 2023-10-16 09:32:09 CEST
Current version of firefox shipped with Mageia 8 is 102, which is unsupported.

However, Mageia 8 is stille supported, so we might want to provide a supported firefox (115) until its end of life.

https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr
Comment 1 Olivier FAURAX 2023-10-16 09:33:12 CEST
For example, we can't use slack.com on a Mageia 8 Firefox with latest updates.
Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2023-10-16 10:32:09 CEST
Thank you for the report. Any site that does not work with Firefox matters.

Do you ever try other browsers? My preference is Falkon (although I have added Vivaldi externally).

Assigning to ns80 who mostly deals with Firefox.

Assignee: bugsquad => nicolas.salguero

Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2023-10-16 15:22:14 CEST
From Bug 32258c1:
>For the moment, Firefox and Thunderbird 115.2 cannot be built for Mageia 8
>because they need at least rust 1.66.0 and Mageia 8 only provides rust 1.60.0.

CC akien as he is the registered maintainer for rust 

Setting as security and high priority as this is a much used application, and have security implications if not updated.  In Mageia 9 we already shipped new Firefox as security update.

Workaround for users wanting to use latest Firefox (ESR or not) is to install it from upstream or as Flatpak.

CC: (none) => fri, rverschelde
Component: Backports => Security
QA Contact: (none) => security
Priority: Normal => High

Nicolas Salguero 2023-10-18 09:20:21 CEST

Assignee: nicolas.salguero => pkg-bugs

Nicolas Salguero 2023-10-18 09:20:26 CEST

CC: (none) => nicolas.salguero

Comment 4 Olivier FAURAX 2023-11-02 11:43:35 CET
I can't test anymore, I switched to Mageia 9.
Sad to see "High priority" being 2 weeks old without any news...
Comment 5 Morgan Leijström 2023-11-11 01:01:12 CET
(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #3)
> From Bug 32258c1:
> >For the moment, Firefox and Thunderbird 115.2 cannot be built for Mageia 8
> >because they need at least rust 1.66.0 and Mageia 8 only provides rust
> > 1.60.0.

1.66 asked for in Bug 30907

Depends on: (none) => 30907

Comment 6 Morgan Leijström 2024-01-07 21:27:04 CET
Mageia 8 is EOL

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD


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