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Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security



On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:04:54PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 01:35 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > I'm not sure if moving packages between repositories makes that much
> > of a difference.  Either they work acceptably well, or they don't,
> > independently of the delivery mechanism.
> The main difference would be that we accept the fact that Mozilla
> software aren't suitable to stay in the stable Debian, and that we
> declare that they can only be sustainable through a repository that has
> recent updates. Backports seems a way to me, though volatile maybe as
> well, IMO.

Apparently it takes long to die/bury, but volatile as a separate thing
does not exist (anymore). It was replaced by a speedy way to bring
updates to stable users instead of an overlay with a different update
policy.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern 

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