On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 17:24 +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [personal opinion]
>
> On 30 March 2015 at 16:14, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> wrote:
> > Squeeze LTS misses a security-supported browser, so it's
> > usefulness as a desktop environment is fairly limited. Since iceweasel
> > is now a standalone package (and doesn't carry lots of xulrunner
> > reverse deps), that should likely be fixable for Wheezy (if there's
> > demand, though, since supportinh it will churn quite some time).
>
> That is easily fixable even for squeeze LTS. Back when the LTS started
> there was what looked like a, negative, consensus as for what updating
> iceweasel concerns.
> Nowadays the blocking point for updating iceweasel is that python2.7
> is needed to _build_ the package. If anyone has an idea as to how to
> solve that problem while keeping Debian traditions, or without
> introducing python2.7 directly into squeeze, please let me know. I'd
> be happy to put my work hat on and share the work we have done for
> iceweasel for squeeze.
Is there any reference for why Python 2.7 is required? Most of the
changes from 2.6 are in the library and most of them could probably be
patched in (something like this:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/kernel/dists/squeeze-backports/linux/debian/lib/python/debian_linux/__init__.py?revision=19228&view=markup
).
--
Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
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