Bug#766249: iceweasel: wheezy force upgraded to 31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello William,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:44:34PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
> Subject: iceweasel: wheezy force upgraded to 31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1
>
> This is a major breach of protocol for debian security patches.
> You DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT release major new upstream
> versions in the middle of a stable release cycle. You certainly
> do not release new versions which are significantly incompatible
> with the old version.

no it is not.
Debian Wheezy was starting with version 10.0.12 for Iceweasel. Right at
the release of Wheezy this version wasn't supported any longer by
Mozilla. We did change the "major" version two times before the current
version 31 in stable-security, ESR version 17 and 24.

> $ rmadison iceweasel | grep security                                                                                                                         
> iceweasel | 3.5.16-20            | squeeze-security  | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
> iceweasel | 17.0.10esr-1~deb7u1  | wheezy-security   | source, ia64, mips, mipsel
> iceweasel | 24.5.0esr-1~deb7u1   | wheezy-security   | source, sparc
> iceweasel | 24.8.0esr-1~deb7u1   | wheezy-security   | source
> iceweasel | 24.8.1esr-1~deb7u1   | wheezy-security   | source, armhf, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, s390
> iceweasel | 31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1   | wheezy-security   | source, amd64, armel, i386, powerpc, s390x

Now Mozilla started a new ESR version and the security team has decided
to use this versions in the current stable-security repository. An they
are right!

Regards
Carsten