I am currently the lead upstream maintainer of HTTPS Everywhere, and a Debian user.
If there isn't a way to get new versions of HTTPS E to Debian stable users via stable-updates on at least a ~ 1 month timeframe, I think it would be bad for those users to be installing xul-ext-https-everywhere. They would have a much better experience installing directly from https://eff.org/https-everywhere and getting timely updates from our stable branch that way. Similar points apply to the stable-updates shipping iceweasel 17ESR and 24ESR that Paul refers to below. We generally meet and fix several major new Firefox incompatibility bugs between each ESR release. (It's great to read that wheezy isn't going to be stuck with iceweasel 10ESR for the next two years, though!) So anyway, I think the options are: 1. Push a new xul-ext-https-everywhere to stable-updates no more than a week or two after it appears; 2. Ship a xul-ext-https-everywhere that auto-updates via EFF's stable updates channel. Not a very Debian-like solution, but Fedora has done this at least some of the time for us; 3. Don't ship xul-ext-https-everywhere in Debian stable releases On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:16:47PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > [Disclaimer: I am not part of the release team] > > On 30-05-13 17:19, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > Nevertheless, according to my calculations, a new stable release > > happened every 20 days on average for the current stable (3.x) branch. > > > > In order to be useful and provide good web browsing experience, HTTPS > > Everywhere rules need to be kept up to date. > > > > Given all the above, do you think HTTPS Everywhere could be part of a > > Debian stable release? > > I personally don't believe that a package that needs updating so often > can be part of the stable release. However, for the future, you might be > interested in some recent discussion on d-devel, threads starting with > [1] and maybe [2]. > > > (Please keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed to -release.) > > Done, although I had to take some action due to MFT set differently. > > Paul > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00131.html > [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01572.html > -- Peter Eckersley p...@eff.org Technology Projects Director Tel +1 415 436 9333 x131 Electronic Frontier Foundation Fax +1 415 436 9993
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