On 2018-05-04 21:12, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Same as all previous extension breakages incurred by ESR transitions; > not at all. Apart from enigmail those are all not updated along > in stable, this doesn't scale at all. If you want your extensions > to be kept compatible, get them from the Mozilla addons page > like every other Firefox/Thunderbird user.
This is not something I would consider. If a software is not in Debian, I just don't use it. (Or only with the objective to bring it into Debian.) > We should make it easy for administrators of bigger desktop > deployments to easily create debs for local deployments, but > keeping all those extensions in a stable release is just > broken and we should block them from testing migration. Why? We have now a huge breakage for all XUL extensions, but were there problems of a similar scale before? Do we have to expect similar breakages in the future with the new API?
