Iceweasel 5.0 in experimental

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed Jun 22 00:45:09 UTC 2011


I just pushed Iceweasel 5.0 to Debian experimental. Why not unstable,
some will ask? Well, because we still need to give some time after
a first notice[1] before breaking plenty of packages (Thanks to Julien
Cristau for the MBF[2], by the way).

I also discontinued the Iceweasel 4.0 backport for Squeeze, as
Iceweasel 4.0 won’t be receiving security updates. Speaking of security
updates, 3.6.18 was also made available on mozilla.debian.net for
Wheezy, Squeeze and Lenny. However, I still have to backport the
necessary patches to 3.5 in Squeeze and 3.0 in Lenny. My real life
schedule wasn’t compatible with the security release schedule, so I got
late on the security backport train.

In the coming weeks, there will also be some additional changes to the
mozilla.debian.net repository, but I’ll give more details when that
happens.

Mike

1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=xulrunner-2.0
2. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs



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