Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net schrieb: --=-dGSWlplfgLb+HUgDia6J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Moritz. Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: In the future the majority of packages should thus rather be installed through

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org schrieb: FWIW, I don't. I think the compromise that the security team is proposing is much more reasonable than such an alternative. That compromise (which I do definitely support for wheezy) puzzles me most for the precedent it creates: if we give up

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/02/2013 01:35 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: I'm not sure if moving packages between repositories makes that much of a difference. Either they work acceptably well, or they don't, independently of the delivery mechanism. The main difference would be that we accept the fact that Mozilla

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 mai 13, 22:33:03, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. Would it be possible to switch to the Mozilla branding in this case? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org schrieb: Hi, On 05/28/2013 22:33, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. Reverse-deps of the older xulrunner libs have negligable security impact and we won't update them

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 12:10:56PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 28 mai 13, 22:33:03, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. Would it be possible to switch to the Mozilla branding in this case? I

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com schrieb: --Yvzb+MHGXtbPBi5F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Ma, 28 mai 13, 22:33:03, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: =20 As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:04:54PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/02/2013 01:35 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: I'm not sure if moving packages between repositories makes that much of a difference. Either they work acceptably well, or they don't, independently of the delivery mechanism. The

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/28/2013 04:33 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi, we need to change the way security fixes are handled for Mozilla in stable-security. The backporting of security fixes is no longer sustainable resource-wise. As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-31 08:52:37 +, Raphael Geissert wrote: Russ Allbery rra at debian.org writes: [...] This would *enable* users to install software from backports if it either didn't exist in stable at all or if they explicitly requested it from backports, but would not install such software

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-01 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 30.05.2013, 22:29 +0100 schrieb Wookey: +++ Josh Triplett [2013-05-29 11:50 -0700]: Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: One problematic aspect are the various xul-ext-* packages currently packaged. It's very likely that some of them will break with ESR17 and ESR24 in the

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thomas Goirand: Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default (there's already a patch available for that, not sure if it has been applied to d-i yet). Then when installing a desktop (since backports are now fully part of Debian), we could provide browsers from there

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (30/05/2013): Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Sorry, what bugreport? I do not consider backports.debian.org of same quality as debian.org so am concerned by what you outline above, and would like to (at the least) read up on the relevant discussion

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-31 Thread Raphael Geissert
Russ Allbery rra at debian.org writes: [...] This would *enable* users to install software from backports if it either didn't exist in stable at all or if they explicitly requested it from backports, but would not install such software by default. Packages which, by the way, are not supported

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2013-05-30 19:56:23) Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes: On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default No. If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a stable

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Josh Triplett wrote (29 May 2013 18:50:23 GMT) : As a user of sid who also maintains various systems running stable, I rely on packages like xul-ext-adblock-plus to make it easier to install specific addons systemwide. FTR, packaged XUL extensions make it easier to build Debian Live

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 30 mai 2013 00.10:11, Philip Hands a écrit : Moritz Mühlenhoff j...@inutil.org writes: Willi Mann foss...@wm1.at schrieb: Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. wouldn't it be better to do

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Didier Raboud: If we can't handle the backporting of serious security issues on top of our stable version (in order to maximise the avoidance of regressions), then maybe said software shouldn't be shipped in stable in the first place. Thoughts ? Which web browsers would remain in stable if

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 30 mai 2013 14.53:44, Florian Weimer a écrit : * Didier Raboud: If we can't handle the backporting of serious security issues on top of our stable version (in order to maximise the avoidance of regressions), then maybe said software shouldn't be shipped in stable in the first

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion consistently? Although that makes me very sad, if we (collectively) give up packaging browser extensions (hence letting our users rely on

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion consistently? The best browser ever; lynx. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2013-05-29 20:50, Josh Triplett wrote: As a user of sid who also maintains various systems running stable, I rely on packages like xul-ext-adblock-plus to make it easier to install specific addons systemwide. I find it much easier to install those via the Debian packaging system rather than

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Moritz. Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: In the future the majority of packages should thus rather be installed through http://addons.mozilla.org instead of Debian packages. Form a security POV, I think this is really quite dangerous... actually tendency should go towards the direction that users

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2013 09:29 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion consistently? Although that makes me very sad, if we (collectively) give up packaging browser

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default No. If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a stable release. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes: On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default No. If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a stable release. Two issues keep getting confused when people talk

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:56:23 AM Russ Allbery wrote: Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes: On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default No. If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 30 mai 2013 15.29:22, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion consistently? Although that makes me very sad, if we (collectively) give up

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2013-05-30 19:56:23) Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes: On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default No. If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a stable

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The actual proposal in the bug report is to add backports.debian.org to the default sources.list file in the installer, but not otherwise change anything about the backports configuration. Specifically, the archive would remain

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:29:16PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: FWIW, I don't. I think the compromise that the security team is proposing is much more reasonable than such an alternative. That compromise (which I do definitely support for wheezy) puzzles me most for the precedent it

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Sorry, what bugreport? I do not consider backports.debian.org of same quality as debian.org so am concerned by what you outline above, and would like to (at the least) read up on the relevant discussion (i.e. avoid rehashing it here). I'm afraid I've

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/30/2013 08:06 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: FWIW, Ubuntu has done this with their backports repositories for the last two years of releases debian-live images have this by default since squeeze too. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email:

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Josh Triplett [2013-05-29 11:50 -0700]: Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: One problematic aspect are the various xul-ext-* packages currently packaged. It's very likely that some of them will break with ESR17 and ESR24 in the future. However, there's not much we can do here. We can select a

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On 29/05/13 00:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Also, if anyone of the GNOME package maintainers is reading this, why does the gnome meta package depend on xul-ext-adblock-plus? For feature parity with the previous meta-gnome3 web browser, it appears: meta-gnome3 (1:3.4+3) unstable;

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:33:03PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi, we need to change the way security fixes are handled for Mozilla in stable-security. The backporting of security fixes is no longer sustainable resource-wise. As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 05/28/2013 22:33, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. Reverse-deps of the older xulrunner libs have negligable security impact and we won't update them any further. One problematic aspect are the

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Arno Töll
On 29.05.2013 15:15, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I would expect some more packages giving us similar problems in the future: other web browsers (chromium) or web applications (owncloud?) where we might have to provide new upstream versions that require updating related packages (or breaking them).

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Willi Mann
Hello Moritz, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. wouldn't it be better to do the bumps of major ESR versions in point releases? That might also allow a few more extensions to be updated. However, there's

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Josh Triplett
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. Very welcome news. One problematic aspect are the various xul-ext-* packages currently packaged. It's very likely that some of them will break with ESR17 and ESR24 in

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Arno Töll a...@debian.org schrieb: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enigD8B4E48BF27B74A11F1ECB8F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 29.05.2013 15:15, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I would expect some

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Willi Mann foss...@wm1.at schrieb: Hello Moritz, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. wouldn't it be better to do the bumps of major ESR versions in point releases? That might also allow a few more

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Philip Hands
Moritz Mühlenhoff j...@inutil.org writes: Willi Mann foss...@wm1.at schrieb: Hello Moritz, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. wouldn't it be better to do the bumps of major ESR versions in point

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Moritz! On 05/28/2013 10:33 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: we need to change the way security fixes are handled for Mozilla in stable-security. The backporting of security fixes is no longer sustainable resource-wise. I second this. Having one of the most commonly used desktop applications

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: we need to change the way security fixes are handled for Mozilla in stable-security. The backporting of security fixes is no longer sustainable resource-wise. Please propose an announcement about this to the Debian press team and add