Iceweasel/Icedove ESR and Whezzy

[David Prévot]

[ Maybe a -backports list would be a better place to discuss this issue
than -release ]

Hi,

Le 14/10/2012 03:41, Mike Hommey a écrit :

> 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.

You may wish to include an /etc/apt/preferences.d/iceweasel [1] file in
your backported software, but I wonder if that would be a really good
idea, if that would be enough to achieve your purpose, and if that would
be safe of unwanted side effects.

1: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/iceweasel
Package: iceweasel
Pin: release a=squeeze-backports
Pin-Priority: 500

Regards

David


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