Iceweasel/Icedove ESR and Whezzy

[Alexander Wirt]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, David Prévot wrote:

> [ 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.
Wrong, not in the backported one. In the stable one. If a package is
installed from bpo the file isn't needed.

Alex