On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:37:29AM +0200, Irrwahn wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 02:04:08 -0400 (EDT), Peter Olson wrote: > > On June 14, 2016 at 1:43 AM Irrwahn <irrw...@freenet.de> wrote: > >> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:37:59 -0400 (EDT), Peter Olson wrote: > >>> > >>> This is why there is Iceweasel instead of Firefox. > >> > >> Not anymore. It's plain "firefox" from Ascii (=Stretch) on. > > > > Well, I'm on Devuan Jessie. > > > > In Ascii, what are you really running? > > Palemoon. SCNR; jokes aside: > > > In Devuan Jessie, if I type firefox at the command prompt, it starts > > Iceweasel. > > From Debian Stretch (= Devuan Ascii) on there is no more > Iceweasel, but just Firefox and Firefox-ESR.
Yes, it seems Debian signed some kind of deal with Mozilla that made that possible. We might have to continue calling it iceweasel unless we sign a similar deal. Or have they rerally changed the licence and trademark terms so that isn't necessaary any more? -- hendrik > > Quote from https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel: > > | As documented at the article The end of the Iceweasel Age[1], > | Firefox is now in Debian again with the official name and > | branding. > | > | At Mozilla's request (see 815006), Debian now contains Mozilla > | “Firefox ESR” (Extended Support Release) as the firefox-esr > | package. Normal Debian support policies, including patches for > | bug fixes, apply to the package. > | > | [...] > | > | In Debian Stretch and later, the package iceweasel is a > | transitional package which installs the firefox-esr package. > | As of 9th of June, 2016 the package Firefox-ESR replaces > | Iceweasel, and is in Wheezy and Jessie security repositories. > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/ > > Purportedly discussion is underway to rename Icedove Thunderbird. > > Regards > Urban > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
