On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:41:59 +0200, Sven Joachim in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On 2009-08-12 19:15 +0200, S. Fishpaste wrote: > >> Well I was primarily wanting to stay with stable as this is an older laptop >> and other than wanting an uptodate browser *always* I'd prefer to use >> backports. Wonder why either backports or volatile don't carry the latest >> versions of Iceweasel|Firefox. I thought that was the purpose of those 2 >> sources. > > Somebody has to provide them first. As a general rule, backports are > only made for packages that are in testing, and Iceweasel 3.5 has not > even hit unstable yet.
OIC > Given that the maintainers of Mozilla packages in Debian are totally > overworked and understaffed, I don't think that backports will be made > any time soon. Fair enough. 8-D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
