a plea: please don't deprecate FF 3.6 yet

[Beat Gaetzi]

2012/3/16 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>:
> I'm on ia64, and www/firefox doesn't build.
> www/firefox36 is about the only full featured
> browser that does build on ia64.

As far as I know not only ia64 is affected by the deprecation
of Firefox 3.6. I know that PowerPC is no longer supported
in newer versions of Firefox. I don't know the current status
of Firefox on sparc64 but I assume that it currenty doesn't
build.

> I've several open bug reports with mozilla:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638056
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647830
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683879
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729447

Thanks, for opening these bugreports!

> I understand it's a pain to keep obsolete
> software in ports, and I'm trying to find
> a newer alternative. However, with the current
> pace of version numbers in mozilla project, FF12
> might be coming out tomorrow, and I'm not ready
> to migrate from 3.6 yet.

Firefox 3.6 will be end-of-life on April 24th. My intention was
to remove it with the relase of Firefox 12 as at that point
upstream no longer provides security updates and I like to
avoid having vulnerable software in the portstree which is
no longer maintained (yes, we also have to update libxul as
the current version is based on Firefox 3.6...).

Flo, whats your opinion on this?

Thanks,
Beat