Re: Iceweasel 45 for Wheezy-LTS
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 08:59:53AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:29:22PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 07:34:29PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > Hi Mike,
> > > I'm currently looking into building icedove 45 for Wheezy-LTS. I wonder
> > > if I should do the same for Iceweasel or if you intend to keep
> > > maintaining Iceweasel in LTS yourself?
> >
> > I don't know yet. The last message in bug 815006 makes me think it might
> > be better to avoid the rename to Firefox in stable, so depending on the
> > outcome of that, continuing to support oldstable may or may not be low
> > overhead.
>
> Given that the security team is fine with it I think moving to firefox
> makes sense. Please let me know how you intend to handle it so I can
> take care of it in case you don't want to support LTS.
>
> BTW any particular reason or starting with 45.2 and not 45.0 as stated in
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006#85
>
> or is this just a resource problem.
Because that leaves/left 12 weeks for things to settle down. Releasing
45.0esr to stable would have been a disaster without that kind of buffer.
Mike
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