On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 08:59:53AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Mike, > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:29:22PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 07:34:29PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > I'm currently looking into building icedove 45 for Wheezy-LTS. I wonder > > > if I should do the same for Iceweasel or if you intend to keep > > > maintaining Iceweasel in LTS yourself? > > > > I don't know yet. The last message in bug 815006 makes me think it might > > be better to avoid the rename to Firefox in stable, so depending on the > > outcome of that, continuing to support oldstable may or may not be low > > overhead. > > Given that the security team is fine with it I think moving to firefox > makes sense. Please let me know how you intend to handle it so I can > take care of it in case you don't want to support LTS. > > BTW any particular reason or starting with 45.2 and not 45.0 as stated in > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006#85 > > or is this just a resource problem.
Because that leaves/left 12 weeks for things to settle down. Releasing 45.0esr to stable would have been a disaster without that kind of buffer. Mike
