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

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Jan 11 22:45:01 UTC 2012


On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:38:40 +0100, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:21:52AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > On 11/10/2011 10:34 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > 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).
> > 
> > aha, this is useful info.  is this bug documented someplace i can read
> > up on it (and maybe try to sort out a solution)?  I have users i would
> > like to support who want both the latest version of iceweasel and a
> > functioning gimp print preview.
> 
> Someone mentioned it on this list. I don't have more details, but I'm
> pretty sure it's not the only issue.

fwiw, i've now documented this issue with the squeeze version of gimp
and newer versions of cairo as http://bugs.debian.org/655517 -- there's
a functional (and very short) patch for it, which is nice.

  --dkg
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