On Apr 7, 2015 5:47 PM, "Ben Hutchings" <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
> ).
There's a bit of everything.
Up to 24 I patched the code to be compatible to 2.6 but 31 introduced more code that depends on 2.7. I can share the patches but I don't think it is worth spending time on it.
Cheers,