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[Nat Tuck <nat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There is always a tradeoff between Gentoo-style "upgrade everything, the
user can handle it if it breaks their stuff" and Debian-style "upgrade
nothing, anything serious needs to be backported so we don't break any
user compatibility".

Pushing major versions as security updates is going too far.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/829746

Title:
  Firefox update breaks addons

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Updates in Natty will automatically upgrade to new Firefox versions as
  if they were minor point releases. This breaks addon compatibility,
  which - in addition to being annoying - is a security issue in the
  case of security enhancing addons like Perspectives.

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