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Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?



On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:58:28AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Am 30.06.2010 02:31, schrieb Michael Gilbert:
> 
> > Advantages of switching to backports:
> > - very simple for the maintainers to keep up to date with respect to
> >   security updates (a matter of just recompiling the unstable/testing
> >   package for stable)
> 
> As current maintainer of the iceweasel and xulrunner backports I invite
> you to try that out.  Calling that "very simple maintainance" is far
> from what I experienced so far.

As current maintainer of the iceweasel and xulrunner packages I'm
curious to know what kind of problems you have that makes it not a "very
simple maintainance". AFAIK, you should only need a couple backports
(off the top of my head, debhelper, nspr, possibly nss, sqlite and
cairo).

Mike


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