Re (3): Dying Iceweasel.

[peasthope@shaw.ca]

From:	noelamac@gmail.com
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:26:49 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Cam..ó..

That's the HTML numeric reference to miniscule oacute.

> It seems your Oberon Mail does not like accented characters ...

According to IETF standards, how should characters beyond 
basic ASCII be handled?  The mailer has some elementary 
settings which I might adjust to make accented Roman characters 
work directly.

> As I already pointed, esr is for the enterprise version ...

Who would know the esr acronym?  Another bit of wiki.debian.org 
in need of fixing.

From: ... <noelamac@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:36:31 +0000 (UTC)
Message-id: <jpo1su$4v3$2@dough.gmane.org>
> ... update your Iceweasel (and your flash player plugin) to the lastest 
> version available, ...

Yes.  I chose aurora.  By the way, everyone else in the world 
would call it alpha.  I wonder why Debian chose "aurora".

> Are you sure you selected the right version?

No.  I merely chose the latest as you instructed.

> ... please send the output of what you 
> get when using aptitude interactively? :-?

root@dalton:/etc/apt# aptitude
  ...
[1(1)/...] Suggest 13 removals                                                  
e: Examine  !: Apply  .: Next  ,: Previous

<E> <Enter>

 Actions  Undo  Package  Resolver  Search  Options  Views  Help
C-T: Menu  ?: Help  q: Quit  u: Update  g: Download/Install/Remove Pkgs
                Packages                          Resolve Dependencies          
  --\ Remove the following packages:                                            
    empathy                                             [2.30.3-1 (now, stable)]
    icedove                                   [3.0.11-1+squeeze10 (now, stable)]
    iceweasel                     [10.0.5esr-1~bpo60+1 (now, squeeze-backports)]
    libcamel1.2-14                             [2.30.3-2+squeeze1 (now, stable)]
    libebook1.2-9                              [2.30.3-2+squeeze1 (now, stable)]
    libedataserver1.2-13                       [2.30.3-2+squeeze1 (now, stable)]
    libmozjs2d                                       [1.9.1.16-16 (now, stable)]
    libnspr4-0d                                          [4.8.6-1 (now, stable)]

[1(1)/...] Suggest 13 removals                                                  
e: Examine  !: Apply  .: Next  ,: Previous

<Q> <Q> <RightArrow> <Enter>

root@dalton:/etc/apt#

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Extended_Support_Release

Thanks and thanks,           ... Peter E.


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