On Apr 7, 2015 5:47 PM, "Ben Hutchings" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 17:24 +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [personal opinion] > > > > On 30 March 2015 at 16:14, Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Squeeze LTS misses a security-supported browser, so it's > > > usefulness as a desktop environment is fairly limited. Since iceweasel > > > is now a standalone package (and doesn't carry lots of xulrunner > > > reverse deps), that should likely be fixable for Wheezy (if there's > > > demand, though, since supportinh it will churn quite some time). > > > > That is easily fixable even for squeeze LTS. Back when the LTS started > > there was what looked like a, negative, consensus as for what updating > > iceweasel concerns. > > Nowadays the blocking point for updating iceweasel is that python2.7 > > is needed to _build_ the package. If anyone has an idea as to how to > > solve that problem while keeping Debian traditions, or without > > introducing python2.7 directly into squeeze, please let me know. I'd > > be happy to put my work hat on and share the work we have done for > > iceweasel for squeeze. > > Is there any reference for why Python 2.7 is required? Most of the > changes from 2.6 are in the library and most of them could probably be > patched in (something like this: > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/kernel/dists/squeeze-backports/linux/debian/lib/python/debian_linux/__init__.py?revision=19228&view=markup > ).
There's a bit of everything. Up to 24 I patched the code to be compatible to 2.6 but 31 introduced more code that depends on 2.7. I can share the patches but I don't think it is worth spending time on it. Cheers,
