Migration of more recent iceweasel to Debian/testing...?

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Sebastian,

Sebastian Rasmussen wrote:
> I'm currently using Debian/testing's Iceweasel 10.0.9 quite happily.
> Though Googles services recently started to complain about that the
> browser is too old.

It's nevertheless the most recent version with support for more than
just a few weeks and officially supported by Mozilla. It's their
current Extended Support Release (ESR). See
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ and
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

> I saw over at packages.debian.org that Iceweasel 11-16 are waiting
> in Debian/experimental.

Only 16.0.2 is in experimental. 11 to 15 have been removed already
again.

> Though I'm not sure why..? Do you have any
> idea of when they might be migrated to Debian/testing?

Never, at least not automatically. Only packages in Unstable migrate
to Testing. Packages in Experimental stay there unless they're
explicitly uploaded again to Unstable.

But to answer the question you probably wanted to ask: Debian Wheezy,
the next stable release, is planned to release with Iceweasel 10.x ESR
-- which is also the reason why the non-ESR releases 11 to 16 were
uploaded to Experimental and not to Unstable.

Mike: Feel free to correct me if the plan has changed. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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