Bug#766249: iceweasel: wheezy force upgraded to 31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1
Mike Hommey
mh at glandium.org
Tue Oct 21 22:42:52 UTC 2014
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 06:05:27PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
> https://www.debian.org/security/faq
>
> "The most important guideline when making a new package that fixes a
> security problem is to make as few changes as possible. Our users and
> developers are relying on the exact behaviour of a release once it is made,
> so any change we make can possibly break someone's system."
>
> Like mine. In my various Debian deployments I rely on the truth of the
> quoted statement. When package fails to follow that procedure, particularly
> when that failure is in a very visible package, I am negatively impacted.
> It's hard enough to convince the PHB's to use Debian over Red Hat without
> it blowing up in my face because of a poorly conceived update.
>
> I don't know what you did before iceweasel 24.8 and I don't care.
So what is the problem now? That the UI changed more visibly than it did
before? Then install this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/
Mike
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