Question About Iceweasel

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:49:14AM -0400, zephyr wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I have been using Iceweasel 3.6.26~bpo~50+1. with Debain Lenny(oldstable)
> Today when I did an apt update, I received the following message"
> Failed to fetch http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/lenny-backports/iceweasel-3.6/binary-i386/Packages
> 404 Not Found
> 
> Seems none of that location pertaining to Lenny (oldstable)is available.
> 
> Have you moved it ? Or, does someone else mirrored it?
> 
> It was there last week. Does this mean the end for iceweasel in Lenny?

You hit a case of double end of life:
- Lenny is not supported by Debian anymore.
- Iceweasel 3.6 is not supported (nor provided) on mozilla.debian.net.

The removal of iceweasel 3.6 was deliberate so that people do see that
something is up. The alternative of leaving the repo up and the version
frozen would leave users with vulnerable and unsupported versions
installed without any kind of awareness.

I'm planning to add some explanations about the situation on
http://mozilla.debian.net/

Mike