iceweasel: Why mozilla.d.n and not backports.d.o

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:16:52PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering why the backport for iceweasel has its own repository on
> mozilla.debian.net instead of using the official repository on
> backports.d.o.  While it would be nice to have a newer version for
> squeeze, I am hesitant to use a unofficial repository (which might be
> more easy to compromise).

First, because the backports.d.o policy is to upload packages that are in
testing, which means that typically, it would be available later. But
more importantly, because it requires cairo 1.10, which is on
mozilla.d.n, but is not suitable for backports.d.o because it breaks
things in squeeze (like, iirc, print preview in gimp).

Please note that the repository is signed, so it's not "easy" to
compromise.

Mike