Upgrading iceweasel (aka mozilla) on squeeze

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Thu Jun 7 12:09:55 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:04:29PM +1000, Rob Hurle wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
>   I seem to have a problem upgrading Iceweasel.  I'm running debian
> squeeze, pretty much standard.  My /etc/apt/sources.list is:
> 
> --------------------------------
> debianrob [21:50] /home/rob#cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> #
> 
> #RJH
> #deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> # For Opera
> deb http://deb.opera.com/opera squeeze non-free
> 
> #RJH - for Firefox
> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
> deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
> --------------------------------
> 
> The result from doing either an "upgrade" or a "dist-upgrade" is:
> 
> --------------------------------
> debianrob [21:54] /home/rob#apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   iceweasel
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> --------------------------------
> 
> When I try to find out what is happening, I get:
> 
> --------------------------------
> debianrob [21:56] /home/rob#apt-cache policy iceweasel
> iceweasel:
>   Installed: 12.0-7~bpo60+1
>   Candidate: 13.0-1~bpo60+1
>   Version table:
>      13.0-1~bpo60+1 0
>         500 http://mozilla.debian.net/
> squeeze-backports/iceweasel-release i386 Packages
>  *** 12.0-7~bpo60+1 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      10.0.4esr-3~bpo60+1 0
>         100 http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/
> squeeze-backports/main i386 Packages
>      3.5.16-15 0
>         500 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages
>      3.5.16-14 0
>         500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
> --------------------------------
> 
> The same thing happened on the previous upgrade and the only solution
> I could find was to remove iceweasel and then re-install it - nobody
> on the debian-user list could see what the problem was.  Can you offer
> any suggestions as to why it won't upgrade?  Thank you very much for
> your help.

You need to apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel.
Alternatively, some fine tuned pinning may allow dist-upgrade to be
happy.

Mike



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