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Subject: Re: Alpine 3.12.0 release candidate 1 is out
From: Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>
To: ecsx <ecsx@protonmail.com>, Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Cc: Alpine develmopment <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 18:35:21 +0200
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Hello,

first off, thanks for testing the RC! :)

On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 15:23 +0000, ecsx wrote:
> I've been using 3.12.0-RC1 for the last days and it's working well so
> far. I got just a few notes.
> 
> - There's firefox-esr and firefox in community repo now. Are they
> equally maintained? Which one is recommended? It's been clear in the
> past (with firefox-esr in community and firefox in testing) that you
> should choose firefox-esr for stability and better support. What now?

They'll both be equally well maintained, but ff-esr will stay on the
supported esr version (right now 68.x), while ff (non-esr) will always
be the latest release. As such you probably want to use ff-esr if you
value stability (as in no UI changes, no new features etc.) and ff if
you want the latest features or speed improvements. I imagine most end
users will want ff (non-esr).

> - python3 doesn't provide a python binary or symlink, just a python3.
> The end-of-life python2 still owns `python`. For the next RC it
> should be the other way around?

We tried removing the /usr/bin/python symlink from python2 in time for
3.12 but unfortunately too many things in aports still rely on
/usr/bin/python being python2. Unfortunately it's now too late in the
release process for such a big change - but with 3.13 /usr/bin/python
being python2 should be a thing of the past.


> - Are there any guides for syslinux installation on modern (UEFI)
> boards? I couldn't get it to work and ended up using GRUB.

I could swear we have a wiki article about this (which I can't find
right now though), but I have to admit I always use rEFInd or GRUB on
my machines, so maybe someone else knows more about that :)

> I'll keep using this RC and let you know if any bug pops up but so
> far it's good.
> Congrats!
> 

Thanks!

Rasmus Thomsen