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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #565807,
regarding iceweasel: -new-tab/-new-window not properly documented in man page /
-help output
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.5-1
Severity: minor
The -new-tab switch really should have a seperate entry
in the man page to help draw attention to it's existence.
Both -new-tab and -new-window switches should be listed
as part of the output for -help, to make people aware
of their existence, so they can use them.
(I seem to recall at one time they were part of -h output, but
I may be wrong about that.)
These have accessability/usability implications
for people who may want to minimize use of the
GUI (for example due to preferences of screen reader technology
for the visually impaired.), increasing interoperability
with other software.
As a use case someone passing a URL from a text mode browser
to Firefox when Iceweasels javascript or multimedia capabilities
might be desired for special web pages, but other factors
give a preference to the text mode browser as much as possible.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-4.2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-3 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.3-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.2-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-2 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.8-1 utilities that use the proc file s
ii xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.5-2 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii latex-xft-fonts 1.6.5-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii mozplugger 1.13.0-1 Plugin allowing external viewers t
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
pn xfonts-mathml <none> (no description available)
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
pn xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome <none> (no description available)
-- 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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