Hi, until now, we've been shipping the latest iceweasel (-release branch), because it was the only relatively cheap way for us to get a "recent enough" iceweasel for Tails needs.
Debian Wheezy will ship with iceweasel "Extended Support Release" instead: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal Currently, that release branch is available in mozilla.debian.net's Squeeze (iceweasel-esr) repository, and in Debian sid (currently, that's 10.0.3esr-2), while the -release branch (currently, that's 11.0-2) is in Debian experimental. I think we should do the same as Debian Wheezy. Deciding to follow the -release branch instead would have a few drawbacks for us: - continuously need to wait and cherry-pick updated add-ons from sid (as we've been doing for a while, breaks the build process more often than not) - no security support from the Debian security team - more work to get a new iceweasel, that fixes this or that serious security issues, integrated into Tails, due to the need to do a major iceweasel upgrade => more days of exposure to security bugs for Tails users Thoughts? Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. | This way, you achieve everything. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
