Questions about the Iceweasel / Firefox transition

[Raphaël Halimi]

Le 13/03/2016 00:06, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> Debian cannot release Firefox in stable, because every 6 to 8 weeks
> there is an entirely new release. What Debian can release in stable is
> Firefox ESR. So iceweasel transitions to the latter because it's what is
> going to be released.
> 
> Now, we could keep the same scheme as before, but it had its downside as
> well: unstable needed to stay at the same version as stable, with the
> exception of the transition period between esr n and esr n+7, and
> release versions would go in experimental. Which a) is confusing, and b)
> would not allow to easily build and test beta releases on all Debian
> architectures, to be ahead of time.

Thanks for answering my questions.

So, am I right to assume that packages named "firefox" will be available
through regular official backports, making debian.mozilla.net useless
from Stretch onwards ?

Regards,

-- 
Raphaël Halimi

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