Bug#738773: wheezy-pu: package firebug/1.12.6-1~deb7u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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Apologies for the delay in getting back to you regarding this.

On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 16:28 -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> As reported in #738701, the firebug version currently in stable is not
> compatible with iceweasel 24 from stable-security. I’d like you to
> consider accepting the (rebuilt in Wheezy) version currently available
> in Jessie and Sid, known to work with iceweasel 24.
[...]
> I’m sorry to ask for such a request again, but it seems like the less
> ugly way to handle the new ESR-support of iceweasel in stable…
[...]
> Please note that this new firebug version is not compatible with the
> “old” iceweasel 17.

The issue here is that due to FTBFS on a few architectures, stable is
still likely to have iceweasel 17 after the next point release.

Thus we either have to assume that most users have already upgraded to
24 from security and that the extension packages are most likely not
used on the missing architectures (ia64 and mips*), or we need to hold
off updating extensions that break with iceweasel 17 until we can get 24
in to stable.

Thoughts (from any party) welcome.

Regards,

Adam