iceweasel: Why mozilla.d.n and not backports.d.o

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 11/10/2011 10:34 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> First, because the backports.d.o policy is to upload packages that are in
> testing, which means that typically, it would be available later. But
> more importantly, because it requires cairo 1.10, which is on
> mozilla.d.n, but is not suitable for backports.d.o because it breaks
> things in squeeze (like, iirc, print preview in gimp).

aha, this is useful info.  is this bug documented someplace i can read
up on it (and maybe try to sort out a solution)?  I have users i would
like to support who want both the latest version of iceweasel and a
functioning gimp print preview.

Regards,

	--dkg

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