On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:59:01AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:44:54AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > To me not having firefox proper was a long-standing bug, and now that it > > has been finally fixed, you want to provide a way for people who got > > used to the bug to have it back. That's very weird to me. > > That might seem weird to you, but to others a changing computer is a > very weird and hostile thing. Often these people are amongst the > elderly, but not always… :) > > And while I applaud and understand why firefox-esr has replaced > iceweasel in stable, I was also surprised. And I also saw Debian Edu > stable break because of this… and we're still fixing it, waiting for > 8.6 to bring these fixes to our users. > > (The latter is not related to this bug report except that they are > caused by the same change. We are fixing Debian Edu to use firefox-esr.) I understand, but we would have to cope with the change at some point, unless we were to keep the broken situation forever. Dealing with it now is not worse than dealing with it later.
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