Icedove install instructions at mozilla.debian.net

[Johannes Rohr]

Am 15.05.2013 09:25, schrieb 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:

It most definitely is not correct. That's why I am reporting it here, so 
that it will be fixed.

Thanks,

Johannes

>
>>> 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
>