Iceweasel/Icedove ESR and Whezzy

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 02:19:25PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:43:48 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > Or maybe it would be a good idea to add the working pinning setup to the
> > iceweasel package itself, so that people that add backports source will
> > automatically get proper upgrades? Or maybe not, I'm just throwing an
> > idea.
> > 
> What does that even mean?

When you have backports in your sources.list, you don't automatically
get your upgrades from there. Once you do install one for the first
time, subsequent upgrades come from backports. But in the case of
iceweasel, version bumps also require new packages for xulrunner and
libmozjs, and that prevents automatic upgrades: iceweasel's is kept
back by apt. Default apt preferences for the iceweasel packages would
ensure stable users that use backports sources will always get the
latest.

Mike