Your message dated Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:12:26 +0200
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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #820698,
regarding iceweasel: Iceweasel tries to update from MOZILLA without my agreement
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 38.7.1esr-1~deb8u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I know you have many bugs on this.
I believe iceweasel tries to update at least addons
(essentially executing native code) from MOZILLA.
To reproduce, start it from terminal, wait at most
few hours and watch stdout/stderr.
In a fully updated VM always I get:
... addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for
{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property
Today I got another one:
14.... addons.update-checker WARN Request failed:
https://versioncheck-bg.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id={<snip>}&version=2.6.9.3&maxAppVersion=36.0&status=userEnabled&appID={<snip>}&appVersion=38.7.1&appOS=Linux&appABI=x86_64-gcc3&locale=en-US¤tAppVersion=38.7.1&updateType=112&compatMode=normal
- 503: Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity
Since the businessmen at mozilla ditched the creator of javascript BE,
I don't want they to patch me on the fly.
Thanks for your attention.
PS:
For console browsers issues, check my blog if you can find it.
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled
Name: NoScript
Location:
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}
Package: xul-ext-noscript
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
-- Addons package information
ii iceweasel 38.7.1esr-1~ amd64 Web browser based on Firefox
ii xul-ext-noscri 2.6.9.3-1 all permissions manager for Iceweasel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 4.4+b1
ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.3
ii libasound2 1.0.28-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-2
ii libffi6 3.1-2+b2
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.3-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4
ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii procps 2:3.3.9-9
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages iceweasel recommends:
ii gstreamer1.0-libav 1.4.4-2
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.4.4-2
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn fonts-mathjax <none>
pn fonts-oflb-asana-math <none>
pn fonts-stix | otf-stix <none>
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1
pn libgnomeui-0 <none>
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u2
pn mozplugger <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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