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

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at debian.org
Fri Nov 11 09:34:08 UTC 2011


Hi,

thanks for your reply.

Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:16:52PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> I was wondering why the backport for iceweasel has its own repository on
>> mozilla.debian.net instead of using the official repository on
>> backports.d.o.  While it would be nice to have a newer version for
>> squeeze, I am hesitant to use a unofficial repository (which might be
>> more easy to compromise).
>
> 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).

Ah, okay.  I don't think I would be able to help with these problems.

> Please note that the repository is signed, so it's not "easy" to
> compromise.

Is the private key used to sign the archive stored in a safe location
(ie. not on alioth)?

Regards,
Ansgar



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