<div dir="ltr"><div>> > 1. Introduce an iceweasel32 package and obsolete the old iceweasel<br>> > package at the point where you're no longer able to provide security<br>> > updates to it. The obsoleted package won't be removed until the<br>> > sysadmin decides to remove it.<br>><br>> This means we should skip the ESR version 31 with the security fixes and<br>> put a current devel version into stable? Possible, but seriously, why<br>> should we do that?<br><br>Due
respect Carsten, you're being deliberately obtuse here. If firefox esr
31 is the one you deem current and secure, replace "32" in every
reference I made. I offer no opinion on that; I would hope you're
qualified to make that assessment.<br><br><br>> No! We do nothing on the versioning! We do nothing more than provide a<br>> actual, more bugfixed version for the current stable release of Debian.<br>> That's simple and that's all.<br><br></div><div>By
your own statement, you moved from Firefox 10 through several
iterations all the way to Firefox 31 inside of Wheezy. If you don't like
the word "versioning" to describe that misbehavior, misbehavior that is
in conflict with the debian security patch guidelines, pick a word you
like better.<br><br></div><div><br>> I haven't<br>> seen any bug on this that a user is loosing any configuration depending<br>> on upgrading from Iceweasel 24 to 31.<br><br></div>Not for lack of me reporting one. Yesterday. <br><br><br>> > 2. Offer a high-priority dialog at install time if the version being<br>> > replaced is enough older to have compatibility problems, advising<br>> > that the version being installed is known to be incompatible. Offer<br>> > an "abort upgrade" option which will fail out of the package install.<br>><br>> No, we do a security update. So there is nothing to do so. <br><br><div>Nothing
for YOU to do, ya lazy bum. ;) <br><br>Seriously though, on my side of the fence you create
substantial sysadmin work. Now I have to revert the change (hunt down
the old package) because you just blew up my configuration, I have to
hold the package in apt and pray no dependencies move it back to install.
Then I have to schedule a cautious move forward.
Then I have to hold the package again so you don't blow me out of the
water next time. And then I have to manually keep track because I'm no
longer receiving automatic security updates for Firefox and won't know when one is released.<br><br></div><div>Unexpected major version bumps really screw me over bub.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br>Bill Herrin<br></div><div><br><br>--<br>William Herrin ................ <a href="mailto:herrin@dirtside.com">herrin@dirtside.com</a> Â <a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us">bill@herrin.us</a><br>Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <<a href="http://www.dirtside.com/">http://www.dirtside.com/</a>><br>May I solve your unusual networking challenges?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>