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Firefox 73 require C++17, not available in xenial

Bug #1856861 reported by Olivier Tilloy
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Olivier Tilloy

Bug Description

Firefox trunk, to become version 73.0 in February 2020, has bumped its C++ requirement to C++17 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560664).

This requires a more recent version (>= 7) of libstdc++6 than what is currently available in xenial (5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12).

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Firefox 73 is now in beta phase.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Useful information that confirms that we definitely need gcc-7 backported to xenial: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx17.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Critical
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Bumping the importance as firefox 73.0 is now in release candidate phase.

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

gcc-mozilla 7.5.0-4ubuntu0.16.04.1 is now available in xenial-{updates,security}, and so is firefox 73.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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