xul-ext-firebug: package stops working when Iceweasel 3.5.19 installed

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Mon Jan 9 07:40:23 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 06:13:18PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> # doesn't affect squeeze, afaict (but please feel free to correct me
> # if there's a XUL extensions policy that could allow a fix to the
> # dependencies in a stable update)
> tags 637411 + wheezy sid experimental
> quit
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Ben Finney wrote:
> 
> > The package ‘xul-ext-firebug’ stops working when Debian's Iceweasel is
> > upgraded to version ‘3.5.19-3’. But the package dependencies don't
> > declare this incompatibility.
> 
> Thanks.  Mike, what is the usual way of dealing with upgrade bugs like
> this one?  Should iceweasel gain a Breaks to force the upgrade?

There are too many addons and too many incompatibilities with old
versions of them for iceweasel to introduce Breaks for that.

Mike



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