Icedove transition coming soon (was: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?)

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 07:23:54PM +0100, Christoph Goehre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:30:37AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > It would be great if every team on track could send us a short mail to
> > > debian-release at lists.debian.org.
> > 
> > Speaking for the pkg-mozilla team, everything is more or less in shape,
> > except the icedove transition that has not started yet: 3.0.x is
> > expected to be the one shipped with squeeze, but it's still only in
> > experimental. In any case, we don't want to ship 2.0.0.x in squeeze.
> 
> OK, lets talk about icdove transition. With some help of Mike, I've
> prepared the icedove-dev package for icedove 3.0. So it's time to move
> icedove from experimental to sid, to be able to release it with squeeze.
> We/I'll upload it to unstable until Groupwaremeeting[1] on 17th of
> April.
> 
> On the other hand, we have experimental free for versions of icedove
> 3.1, which will hopefully released at 1st of June. Guido and I discuss
> yesterday the fact, to get a beta/RC version of 3.1 in squeeze.

Please don't. Having more mozilla software in the release won't help
with security support.

> If Mozilla
> be in time with its release plan, this would be a additional option.
> Also in the face of EOL of 3.0 before ending of security support for
> squeeze.

3.1 will also be EOL before the end of security support of squeeze.
Going with 3.1 doesn't buy much time-wise. On the other hand, having
only one codebase for the mozilla applications we ship (icedove, iceape,
iceweasel) *will* help security support. That is why our target is
respectively 3.0, 2.0 and 3.5.

Mike