Health warning needed on instructions for installing latest Icedove on Wheezy

[Tormen]

Hello there,

But the:
     apt-get install-t wheezy-backports icedove

did ask you if you are sure and if you really want to install the glib.
plus you noticed the "experimental" share ?

So there were signs of warning along the road.
Debian is still a distro where you have to know what you are doing ;) :)

And if you'll have a look now, someone of the great Debian team
managed to - in his/her spare time - get us nice backports (which should
as always when something with Debian gets released as stable / backport
(and not experimental) work exceptionally flawless):

     deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release
     deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports icedove-esr

Thanks a lot for that!! (to whom it might concern  :))

Tormen


On 31/05/13 10:26, John Winters wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I have for some time kept my Iceweasel installation up to date using 
> the instructions to be found at http://mozilla.debian.net/
>
> The other day I realised there were also instructions there for 
> updating Icedove on Wheezy, and I made the mistake of following them.
>
> The trouble is, if you add the indicated repository, you not only get 
> a newer Icedove, it also pulls in the latest glib (2.36), which in its 
> turn breaks Gnome 3 (see bug 708185), leaving things in rather a mess.
>
> I now need to work out how to remove the new Icedove and revert my 
> libraries.
>
> Danger Will Robinson!
>
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