what's stopping iceweasel 4.0 to be in unstable.

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,
 Please see the discussion at
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=64613 .  To put it
simply,  while it started with the recent alioth.debian.org
move/change handling to two hosts for better uptime and scalability
and the resulting downtime I have been concerned seeing the stagnancy
of iceweasel 3.5/3.6 in unstable and no move to have iceweasel 4.0 in
unstable.

I have not seen any discussions on the mailing list so in case I
missed something sorry.  I tried to see all the depends of
xulrunner-2.0 (manually) by using something like :-

$ apt-show-versions -a libnspr4-0d
libnspr4-0d 4.8.8-1 install ok installed
libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 stable  ftp.us.debian.org
libnspr4-0d 4.8.7-2 testing ftp.us.debian.org
libnspr4-0d 4.8.8-1 sid     ftp.us.debian.org
libnspr4-0d/sid uptodate 4.8.8-1

Except for libmozjs4d which is still in experimental all other
packages are either in stable or testing or in sid/unstable. So is
there possibility of maybe first having libmozjs4d first in unstable
and then maybe in a day or two have xulrunner-2.0 and finally
iceweasel 4.0 in unstable.

While I do not claim to know anything about iceweasel/firefox but
whatever info. is there in general media/perception it does seem with
their change to a chromium sort of developmental process, they would
be more number of releases and better tested releases (or atleast that
is the perception).

In either way that would mean that 5.0b2 (which got released recently
and perhaps even r6 or r7 over a year's horizon) the iceweasel
maintainers would be playing constant catch-up to upstream.

Has there been any thought as to how the iceweasel team proposes to go
ahead in such a scenario ?

Looking forward to info. and clarifications.

Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list.
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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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