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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