Bug#815006: Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Fri Feb 19 11:48:10 UTC 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:19:46PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> mmmm, I had meant to send this to the bug, but somehow, the bug wasn't
> in the Cc list...
> 
> Does the security team (now CCed) have a comment to make about stable
> (see further below)?
> 
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 07:23:32AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:55:42PM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
> > > index 56184ad..b5785a0 100644
> > > --- a/debian/control.in
> > > +++ b/debian/control.in
> > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > > -Source: iceweasel
> > > +Source: firefox

Excellent news!

> > Which bring me to this thought: maybe upload a firefox package now that
> > doesn't have the iceweasel transition package, wait for 45 to be released,
> > upload firefox 45 and firefox-esr 45 with the latter providing a
> > transitional iceweasel package depending on it, so that iceweasel users

That's personally fine with me; with the model that we're following ESR, we're 
bound to some changes in ESR upgrades anyway.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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