Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2016-07-31 at 08:15 +, nord-stream wrote: > Any progress on this? > > **Please support user choice.** Updates to stable are _not_ about "user choice". > If 20% of firefox-esr users want Iceweasel back, that's still a large > number of users. It's not /that/ large. I'm also still not

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-31 Thread nord-stream
Any progress on this? **Please support user choice.** If 20% of firefox-esr users want Iceweasel back, that's still a large number of users. Thank you for understanding... nord-stream signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-20 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >(I assume it's not bringing back /etc/iceweasel and /usr/share/iceweasel >(and probably a bunch of others). For Debian Edu the changed look is not >so much the problem as are changed pathes.) maybe you can ask as a feature to have symlinks :) (not sure if it works) Gianfranco

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 02:47:18PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > maybe you can ask as a feature to have symlinks :) we're switching to firefox-esr for good. -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Gianfranco, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:49:56PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > >> [...] And I also saw Debian Edu > >> stable break because of this… and we're still fixing it, waiting for > >> 8.6 to bring these fixes to our users. > is firefox-branding-iceweasel able to mitigate this iss

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-20 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Antonio and Holger, >> And while I applaud and understand why firefox-esr has replaced >> iceweasel in stable, I was also surprised. And I also saw Debian Edu >> stable break because of this… and we're still fixing it, waiting for >> 8.6 to bring these fixes to our users. >> >> (The latter i

Re: Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-20 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:59:01AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:44:54AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > To me not having firefox proper was a long-standing bug, and now that it > > has been finally fixed, you want to provide a way for people who got > > used to the bu

Re: Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:44:54AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > To me not having firefox proper was a long-standing bug, and now that it > has been finally fixed, you want to provide a way for people who got > used to the bug to have it back. That's very weird to me. That might seem weird to y

Re: Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-20 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 04:56:05PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > there might be users that wants their name back, not sure who they > are, I don't want to have to answer here, but I still think giving > users the choice is something sane that might avoid troubles or > complains. To me not

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-20 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Adam! >You're answering a different question, namely "why". I was asking for >some information / pointers as to how you know they're being confused. >Presumably there are several mailing list posts, IRC conversations, etc. I didn't say the original statement, so I leave nord-stream answeri

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 16:56 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > >Who are these "quite a few users"? Where are they being confused? > > > because they used to have an iceweasel package, and now they have a firefox > instead > (different desktop file, different branding) You're answering a diff

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-19 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >If they're interested, they can follow the bug. They don't all need to >be CCed on every message. Indeed, I follow the bug :) and I propose to drop the cc in the next message >Who are these "quite a few users"? Where are they being confused? because they used to have an iceweasel packa

Re: Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-19 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
[forgot to CC release] On 2016-07-19 16:47, nord-stream wrote: With this in stable, we can say to anyone who wants to keep Iceweasel: "Run this command: sudo apt-get install xul-ext-iceweasel-branding" Why is the compatibility symlink shipped in the iceweasel package insufficient? If this is

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-19 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On 2016-07-19 16:47, nord-stream wrote: With this in stable, we can say to anyone who wants to keep Iceweasel: "Run this command: sudo apt-get install xul-ext-iceweasel-branding" Why is the compatibility symlink shipped in the iceweasel package insufficient? If this is just about the title of

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2016-07-19 16:47, nord-stream wrote: On 18/07/16 17:57, Adam D. Barratt wrote: [Why is this CCed to quite so many places / people?] Sponsor, reviewer, related package maintainers... If they're interested, they can follow the bug. They don't all need to be CCed on every message. [...]

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-19 Thread nord-stream
On 18/07/16 17:57, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > [Why is this CCed to quite so many places / people?] Sponsor, reviewer, related package maintainers... > A debdiff between two versions of the package is not that helpful to > convince anyone that the new version should be added to stable, given > tha

Bug#831447: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-18 Thread Sean Whitton
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 06:57:47PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > [Why is this CCed to quite so many places / people?] I've tried to cut it down now that this is just about the stable update. > On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 14:48 +, nord-stream wrote: > > See the attached files. > > > > nord-stream

Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

2016-07-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[Why is this CCed to quite so many places / people?] On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 14:48 +, nord-stream wrote: > See the attached files. > > nord-stream A debdiff between two versions of the package is not that helpful to convince anyone that the new version should be added to stable, given that no