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Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security



Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> writes:

> 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.

Does this perhaps indicate that these packages are not really suitable
for stable, and should instead be provided via backports or some similar
mechanism (i.e. a mozilla-bikeshed[1])?

Cheers, Phil.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00481.html
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