Hi, > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:05:22PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> To facilitate smoother partial jessie->stretch upgrades, it would be >> good if iceweasel was added as an alternative dependency. > > I'm not familiar with this use case: could you explain why someone might > want to do that, please?
It makes the life of the package manager (solver) less painful. It also would allow one to use xul-ext-* packages from unstable or testing on a stable release without the hassle of rebuilding it, again not a bad thing. > Further, firefox-esr will replace iceweasel in Jessie when the next ESR > release is made by Mozilla. That will make the current rebuild all the xul-ext-* world again more painful (because stable). If we can start handling this mess sooner, that would not be bad either (i.e., we could make the xul-ext-* packages from stable installable with firefox{,-esr} as well as iceweasel right now). That also means preparing a stable upload of mozilla-devscripts ASAP (needed anyway, if we want to binNMU or even full upload the xul-ext-* world in stable). Starting right now to depend on thunderbird on top of icedove could also be a good idea, no need to wait for #816679 to be fixed. Regards David _______________________________________________ Pkg-mozext-maintainers mailing list Pkg-mozext-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mozext-maintainers