Planned changes to iceweasel/iceape vs. freeze
Mike Hommey
mh at glandium.org
Thu Aug 12 12:32:17 UTC 2010
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, August 12, 2010 06:32, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 16:06 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >> - Iceweasel and xulrunner are currently two separate source packages,
> >> sharing the exact same tarball. It is the result of the packages
> >> history, and it would be better if they were merged, for several
> >> reasons:
> >> - It is a maintenance burden.
> >> - I suspect some stable users are not upgrading xulrunner on their
> >> stable systems, leaving their iceweasel at risk.
>
> As a further comment on this, the reverse dependencies of xulrunner should
> also be to tested to ensure that they build and operate correctly against
> the combined package.
As I wrote, I won't be modifying the generated binary packages. I will
make sure the whole content is exactly the same.
Mike
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