Bug#815006: Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox

[Benjamin Kerensa]

I'm glad this finally got sorted out having been involved in some of the
discussions
earlier on and trying to sort out the differences. Kudos to everyone who
sorted this out!


On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:55:42 +0100 Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at mozilla.com>
wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 45.0~b5-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> The goal of this bug is to rename Iceweasel in Firefox.
>
> The various issues mentioned in bug #354622 have been now tackled.
>
>
> = Actors =
> Mike Hommey is one of the most prolific Mozilla developer in term of
number
> of commits (in the top 10). He is also a Mozilla employee. He has been
> maintaining Firefox/Iceweasel in Debian since 2004.
>
> Mike Connor is leading the partner efforts at Mozilla.
>
> Sylvestre Ledru is leading the Mozilla release management & stability
teams.
> He is also involved in Debian since 2006.
>
> Stefano Zacchiroli has been the Debian Project Leader for 3 years (2010
> to 2013) and he has been part of Debian/Mozilla conversations since then.
>
>
> = About the Debian specific patches =
>
> Mozilla recognizes that patches applied to Iceweasel/Firefox don't
> impact the quality of the product.
> Patches which should be reported upstream to improve the product always
> have been forward upstream by the Debian packagers. Mozilla agrees about
> specific patches to facilitate the support of Iceweasel on architecture
> supported by Debian or Debian-specific patches.
>
> More generally, Mozilla trusts the Debian packagers to use their best
> judgment to achieve the same quality as the official Firefox binaries.
>
> In case of derivatives of Debian, Firefox branding can be used as long
> as the patches applied are in the same category as described above.
> Ubuntu having a different packaging, this does not apply to that
> distribution.
>
>
> = About stable releases =
>
> Mozilla releases new Firefox releases every 6 to 8 weeks.
> In parallel of these rapid releases, Mozilla proposes a version called
> ESR which is maintained for about 9 months.
> On the contrary, Debian having a longer release cycle (about every two
> years), release cycles don't align.
> Because of the complexity of backporting security fixes, Debian cannot
> maintain a deprecated ESR release.
>
> To address this packaging issue, once a ESR cycle is over, Debian has
> been accepting uploads of new ESR releases in the stable release.
>
>
> = About branding =
> Mozilla & Debian both acknowledge that the branding issue mentioned in
> bug 354622 is
> no longer relevant.
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