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

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:21:52AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 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.

Someone mentioned it on this list. I don't have more details, but I'm
pretty sure it's not the only issue.

Mike