Bug#626068: iceweasel: Why only vintage Iceweasel are available in testing ?

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:35:27PM +0200, mourad wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 4.0.1-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a long standing and recurring question !
> 
> I'm using iceweasel for years and when the version 3.6 appears in experimental,
> I had migrate to it without problem...
> For the 4.0 it is the same, I'm using it since it is available in experimental,
> without any major issue !
> 
> It is my main web browser, using it more or less 8 hours a day with lot of web
> tabs... on any kind of web sites (with or without flash, with o without lot's
> of javascripts, well done with standard care or experimental one's)...
> 
> So why it is not migrating to sid and testing to have bigger tester number and
> to be more wildly available ?
> 
> Is there any technical/ethical/political reason of that ?

A technical one:

$ build-rdeps xulrunner-dev
Reverse Build-depends in contrib:
---------------------------------

videolink

Found a total of 1 reverse build-depend(s) for xulrunner-dev.

Reverse Build-depends in main:
------------------------------

parole
pyxpcom
instantbird
ruby-gnome2
vlc
gtk-vnc
sugar-hulahop
mongodb
mozzemberek
gluezilla
firetray
kazehakase
google-gadgets
gnome-chemistry-utils
libgtk2-mozembed-perl
rhythmbox
chmsee
gnome-python-extras
openvrml
moon
libjdic-java
mozvoikko
xiphos
gecko-mediaplayer
galeon
weave
libreoffice
packagekit
swt-gtk
icedtea-web
totem
gjs
eclipse
pcmanx-gtk2
firegpg
gnash
openjdk-6

Found a total of 37 reverse build-depend(s) for xulrunner-dev.

Reverse Build-depends in non-free:
----------------------------------

No reverse build-depends found for xulrunner-dev.


$ build-rdeps libmozjs-dev

Reverse Build-depends in contrib:
---------------------------------

No reverse build-depends found for libmozjs-dev.

Reverse Build-depends in main:
------------------------------

libjavascript-perl
edbrowse
couchdb
elinks
libproxy
gjs
gxine
mediatomb
openvrml
freej

Found a total of 10 reverse build-depend(s) for libmozjs-dev.

Reverse Build-depends in non-free:
----------------------------------

No reverse build-depends found for libmozjs-dev.