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

[Sebastian Rasmussen]

>> 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.

Yes, and by now 17.0.6 is in unstable and 21.0 is in experimental.

>> 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.

Right, I guess I meant to ask about when packages migrate from
Unstable to Testing. Are they? What is hindering a more rapid migration?
It seems as if the 10.0.x present in Debian/testing today was originally
released back in January 2012 and that I might be missing out on some
security fixes or new juicy features. Can I do something to help?

> 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.

No, not really. I'm running Debian/testing so I'm not necessarily
interested in Debian/stable. :)

 / Sebastian