Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:13:26 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 25 Sep 2011 at 13:45:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> I've always wondered why Mozilla products are not integrated into
>> "squeeze-updates" (the old "volatile" repo), it seems to fit perfectly
>> there :-?
>
> Not quite the perfect fit for inclusion as you might think:
>
> This suite will contain updates that satisfy one of the following
> criteria:
>
> * The update is urgent and not of a security nature. Security
> updates
> will continue to be pushed through the security archive. Examples
> include packages broken by the flow of time (c.f. spamassassin and
> the year 2010 problem) and fixes for bugs introduced by point
> releases.
> * The package in question is a data package and the data must be
> updated
> in a timely manner (e.g. tzdata).
> * Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g.
> video downloading tools and tor).
> * Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).
Yes, I already read that announcement message and that's why I find it
very appropriate, specially for points 1) and 4).
A very different thing is the limitation Sven has pointed out: if the
packages are not able to be compiled for all of the architectures and
"squeeze-updates" packages are going to be part of the "point" releases
then it makes more sense to keep these packages out of that tree.
P.S. I'm runnig a 64-bits lenny -yes, still- and had to get the upstream
mozilla packages because they are not updated anymore in Debian (fair)
but I had no incompatibility issues despite I'm running very old versions
of gtk and other libraries that Firefox needs and true is that I expected
complaints at install time... hopefully there were none.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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