Please quit top posting. On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 04:52:29PM +0100, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > Iceweasel and Firefox are a different products, very similar, but different. > So I think that debian should no longer use firefox as a name for iceweasel > package! > Except that the release managers and package maintainers don't want to leave their users without an upgrade path. They felt that Iceweasel was natural upgrade path. I must say that I agree with that since it is effectively the same thing as Firefox, but rebranded and with a couple of non-free bits removed. I think that automatically upgrading people to Iceweasel is better than leaving the stagnant Firefox package since: - The security team can't support - Debian is not allowed to continue redistributing - People may not know to go looking for it > I will give you an example: > You are typing: > aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade > > and after that you realize that you have no longer debian, but knoppix or > ubuntu... > ups... they are very similar you can say, but did you want to change your > debian to ubuntu? > I think: no! > What you are saying does not make sense. Debian -> Knoppix and Debian -> Ubuntu are not natural upgrade paths for many reasons. > Be realist, do everybody have a time to read all news carefully? > No, but you said all you wanted was an announcement. I gave you three. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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