Bug#766249: iceweasel: wheezy force upgraded to 31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1

[William Herrin]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:

> 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."
>
>
> 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
>

Well Mike, there are two problems: the one that pisses me off and the one
you should care about.

The one that pisses me off is that the particular extensions I use have not
been ported forward yet (and may or may not be), so upgrading irreparably
breaks my user experience.

The one you should care about is that as a responsible system administrator
I can't even consider deploying Debian to hundreds desktops unless I know
the quoted Debian standard above is being followed. Nor can anyone else in
a position to deploy large numbers of Debian desktops. Time comes, I'll be
asked why not Red Hat and unlike on the server side I won't be able to say,
"stability."

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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