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

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 05:03:29PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 01:29 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:35:27PM +0200, mourad wrote:
> >> 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
> 
> Mike, i think your implication here is that these packages won't fare
> well with xulrunner-dev or libmozjs-dev > 1.9.1; is that right?  Has
> anyone tried rebuilding them against the experimental dev packages?

I did. Most don't.

> Is there reason to believe that they won't build properly with them?
> 
> > firegpg
> 
> This one at least has been orphaned (by me) and can be removed from the
> archive if it's holding up iceweasel 4.  Shall i request this?

It's not likely to be the most problematic.

Mike