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Re: Planned changes to iceweasel/iceape vs. freeze



On Thu, August 12, 2010 06:32, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 16:06 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> - Iceweasel and xulrunner are currently two separate source packages,
>>   sharing the exact same tarball. It is the result of the packages
>>   history, and it would be better if they were merged, for several
>>   reasons:
>>   - It is a maintenance burden.
>>   - I suspect some stable users are not upgrading xulrunner on their
>>     stable systems, leaving their iceweasel at risk.

As a further comment on this, the reverse dependencies of xulrunner should
also be to tested to ensure that they build and operate correctly against
the combined package.

Regards,

Adam


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