[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Facilitating Firefox+Rust Linux distro packaging

[Ralph Giles]

On 2016-08-30 7:35 AM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> Debian won't ship Firefox in stable, only Firefox-esr.

I don't understand this either. Can you explain why this is a
catagorically so?

Firefox-esr has a clear advantage for stable users in that the interface
doesn't change as often, and there's no upstream backports programme
like firefox-esr for chromium.

But having up-to-date versions of major software packages which are
well-maintained upstream like browsers and active programming languages
are also clearly advantageous for stable users. How is Debian chosing
between these goals? Why not pursue both?

 -r