Bug#569785: iceweasel: Please don't use homepage_override / welcome page; user not necessarily admin/developer

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:39:30AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:21:06PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:13:00AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > A quick look at the debian-devel-announce archives didn't turn up any
> > > mails asking for help; have you considered sending one?
> > 
> > I've sent several call for helps on my blog and debian-devel ; I also
> > did a BoF at Debconf 9, where the idea of "nagging" was suggested.
> 
> As I understand it, debian-devel-announce draws a lot more attention
> than debian-devel, given relative volume and subscription.  I think for
> a package like Iceweasel you can easily justify poking it. :)  It seems
> worth a shot, anyway.
> 
> > > Please reconsider your use of upstream's nag-on-upgrade facility for
> > > this purpose.
> > 
> > Please note that the nag-on-upgrade facility won't be triggered on
> > stable systems, except after a dist-upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
> > 
> > The idea is also to get unstable users to actually report problems and
> > help improve what will end up in stable.
> 
> If this message will almost never appear to stable users, that will
> greatly help; much appreciated.

Technically, it will only appear when the xulrunner version changes. The
upcoming stable security update is expected to be the last update to not
follow the debian way of backporting changes and keeping the current
version, which means stable users shouldn't see the page after an
upgrade. OTOH, backports users will.

> In the meantime, if this message will stick around, I guess I'd better
> get to improving it. ;)

The message in its current form has been put together quickly and is not
thought to be a definitive version. I do intend to add real notes about
what is new, for instance. But please feel free to give a hand ;)

Mike