Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel
> and icedove in stable-security.
Very welcome news.
> One problematic aspect are the various xul-ext-* packages currently
> packaged. It's very likely that some of them will break with ESR17
> and ESR24 in the future.
>
> 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
> keep in sync through stable-security, but that doesn't scale for
> the full scale of Mozilla extensions currently packaged.
>
> In the future the majority of packages should thus rather be installed
> through http://addons.mozilla.org instead of Debian packages.
As a user of sid who also maintains various systems running stable, I
rely on packages like xul-ext-adblock-plus to make it easier to install
specific addons systemwide. I find it much easier to install those via
the Debian packaging system rather than a user-level mechanism that
involves running Firefox as one or more target users (or more likely
doing the equivalent of creating a xul-ext-* package for local use). I
realize that you can't maintain the full library of Firefox addons as
packages, but I'm hoping that some of the most common and popular ones
stick around and stay up to date, notably Adblock Plus, HTTPS
Everywhere, and It's All Text.
- Josh Triplett
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