State of security support for squeeze-backports/iceweasel-esr?

Hoshi Hoshimoto hoshi.hoshimoto at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 4 19:01:10 UTC 2013


Hi,

I'm still happily using squeeze with backports on desktop systems (yes!) 
and was hoping to delay upgrading to wheezy on several machines for at 
least some months.

Some time before the release of wheezy, Debian's security team advised 
users of squeeze to upgrade their iceweasel packages to esr10, 
backported from wheezy.

Now wheezy itself follows the current esr17, which until recently was 
also up-to-dately available for squeeze via mozilla.debian.net (thank 
you, guys!), but unfortunately now lacks the latest security update.

Is esr17 on squeeze-backports still maintained?

I think it would be a bit embarrassing for users of oldstable to be 
without any security maintained web browsers so shortly after the 
release of the newest stable (support for Chromium in squeeze has ended, 
and the other available browsers like rekonq, Konqueror, Midori and what 
else are more or less negligible I dare to say).


> $ aptitude versions iceweasel
> p   3.5.16-20                                              oldstable                           500
> p   10.0.12esr-1~bpo60+1                                   squeeze-backports                   200
> p   10.0.12esr-1                                           stable                              1
> i   17.0.5esr-1~bpo60+1                                    squeeze-backports                   200
> p   17.0.6esr-1~deb7u1                                     stable                              1
> p   17.0.6esr-1                                            unstable                            1
> p   21.0-1                                                 experimental                        1

> $ apt-cache policy iceweasel
> iceweasel:
>   Installed: 17.0.5esr-1~bpo60+1
>   Candidate: 17.0.5esr-1~bpo60+1
>   Package pin: 17.0.5esr-1~bpo60+1
>   Version table:
>      21.0-1 500
>           1 http://server/ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
>      17.0.6esr-1 500
>           1 http://server/ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
>      17.0.6esr-1~deb7u1 500
>           1 http://server/security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
>  *** 17.0.5esr-1~bpo60+1 500
>         200 http://server/mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports/iceweasel-esr amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      10.0.12esr-1 500
>           1 http://server/ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
>      10.0.12esr-1~bpo60+1 500
>         200 http://server/ftp.de.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main amd64 Packages
>      3.5.16-20 500
>         500 http://server/ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages
>         500 http://server/security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages

Regards,
Hoshi



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