Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Willi Mann <foss-ml@wm1.at> schrieb:
> Hello Moritz,
>
> Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>> As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel
>> and icedove in stable-security.
>
> wouldn't it be better to do the bumps of major ESR versions in point 
> releases? That might also allow a few more extensions to be updated.

We need to release the security updates when ready and cannot realistically
align the point releases with Mozilla releases.

>> However, there's not much we can do here. We can select a narrow (!)
>> set of important addons (e.g. enigmail for Icedove) that we will
>
> Enigmail is definitly requiring an update for ESR 17 in wheezy. When should 
> I have a package ready and where should I upload it?

We'll deal with Iceweasel first. We'll let you know when an icedove package
is ready.

Cheers,
       Moritz