Icedove install instructions at mozilla.debian.net

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 05/14/2013 07:10 AM, Johannes Rohr wrote:

> I would like to add a source for Iceweasel 17 to my Wheezy install. On
> mozilla.debian.net it says:
> 
> You need to add the following entry in /etc/apt/sources.list or a new file
> in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/:
> 
> deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian unstable main
> 
> You can install it with the following commands:
> 
> $ apt-get update
> $ apt-get install -t unstable icedove


this doesn't even sound correct to me, regardless of the issues with
pinning that you describe:

>> 0 dkg at alice:~$ rmadison icedove
>>  icedove | 3.0.11-1+squeeze15 | squeeze-security  | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
>>  icedove | 3.0.11-1+squeeze15 | squeeze           | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
>>  icedove | 10.0.12-1~bpo60+1  | squeeze-backports | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
>>  icedove | 10.0.12-1          | wheezy            | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
>>  icedove | 10.0.12-1          | jessie            | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
>>  icedove | 10.0.12-1          | sid               | source, amd64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
>>  icedove | 11.0-1             | experimental      | source, armel, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mipsel
>>  icedove | 17.0.5-1           | experimental      | source, amd64, armhf, i386, mips, powerpc, s390, s390x
>> 0 dkg at alice:~$ 


> Will this be fixed? Or wouldn't it be possible to have Icedove 17esr in the
> regulary wheezy-backports once it has hit testing?

I'd love to see icedove 17esr in wheezy-backports, but to get there we
need to get it into unstable first, and then from there to testing.

please follow up on http://bugs.debian.org/706859 if you want to see
this transition start :)

fwiw, it seems like there is more work to do to get such a transition to
happen.

it doesn't build on three platforms (armel and mipsel and sparc) due to
a segfault during hyphenation unpacking.  (i just filed this as
http://bugs.debian.org/708331)

And it fails to build on kfreebsd-* due to a problem with build headers
(this header file is in libc6-dev on the linux-based arches):

>> In file included from /build/buildd-icedove_17.0.5-1-kfreebsd-amd64-BMX_pr/icedove-17.0.5/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/base/platform_thread_posix.cc:15:0:
>> ../../dist/system_wrappers/sys/prctl.h:3:28: fatal error: sys/prctl.h: No such file or directory

(this sounds similar to http://bugs.debian.org/621819 and i've filed it
explicitly as http://bugs.debian.org/708325),

for more details, see:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=icedove&suite=experimental

Regards,

	--dkg

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