Bug#556177: security support

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:27:09PM +0100, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
> Dear Mike,
> 
> as you mention that v3.5 is targeted for squeeze, I wonder how long
> that's going to be supported by Mozilla.

Theorically, it will be supported for 5 months. 3.6 will only be
supported for 6 more months, so it doesn't make that much a difference
for squeeze support. And we have to support Iceape and Icedove, which
have the same codebase as 3.5, for that time, too.

> and how long Debian would be
> able to support it (especially whether support for it would have to
> be dropped before squeeze support ends).

Debian will support it as long as backporting patches will be possible.
It will however be easier to backport to one target only (1.9.1) than to
backport to two targets (1.9.1 and 1.9.2, for all Ice* packages)

Mike