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 the future. > > However, there's not much we can do here. We can select a narrow (!) > set of important addons (e.g. enigmail for Icedove) that we will > keep in sync through stable-security, but that doesn't scale for > the full scale of Mozilla extensions currently packaged. > > In the future the majority of packages should thus rather be installed > through http://addons.mozilla.org instead of Debian packages. 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 a user-level mechanism that involves running Firefox as one or more target users (or more likely doing the equivalent of creating a xul-ext-* package for local use). I realize that you can't maintain the full library of Firefox addons as packages, but I'm hoping that some of the most common and popular ones stick around and stay up to date, notably Adblock Plus, HTTPS Everywhere, and It's All Text. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130529185021.GA9742@jtriplet-mobl1
