Bug#815006: Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Fri Feb 19 12:46:59 UTC 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:48:10PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:19:46PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > mmmm, I had meant to send this to the bug, but somehow, the bug wasn't
> > in the Cc list...
> > 
> > Does the security team (now CCed) have a comment to make about stable
> > (see further below)?
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 07:23:32AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:55:42PM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
> > > > index 56184ad..b5785a0 100644
> > > > --- a/debian/control.in
> > > > +++ b/debian/control.in
> > > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > > > -Source: iceweasel
> > > > +Source: firefox
> 
> Excellent news!
> 
> > > Which bring me to this thought: maybe upload a firefox package now that
> > > doesn't have the iceweasel transition package, wait for 45 to be released,
> > > upload firefox 45 and firefox-esr 45 with the latter providing a
> > > transitional iceweasel package depending on it, so that iceweasel users
> 
> That's personally fine with me; with the model that we're following ESR, we're 
> bound to some changes in ESR upgrades anyway.

For clarity, do you mean you're fine with a iceweasel->firefox-esr
transition in stable(jessie) when we upgrade to 45? (which will be by 45.2,
at the beginning of June)

Mike



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