Re: Iceweasel 3.5
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:41:59 +0200, Sven Joachim in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> On 2009-08-12 19:15 +0200, S. Fishpaste wrote:
>
>> Well I was primarily wanting to stay with stable as this is an older laptop
>> and other than wanting an uptodate browser *always* I'd prefer to use
>> backports. Wonder why either backports or volatile don't carry the latest
>> versions of Iceweasel|Firefox. I thought that was the purpose of those 2
>> sources.
>
> Somebody has to provide them first. As a general rule, backports are
> only made for packages that are in testing, and Iceweasel 3.5 has not
> even hit unstable yet.
OIC
> Given that the maintainers of Mozilla packages in Debian are totally
> overworked and understaffed, I don't think that backports will be made
> any time soon.
Fair enough. 8-D
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