problem with updates on jessie

[Richard Hector]

On 17/03/16 00:51, Anton Byshovets wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have some troubles with a fresh updates.
> 
> When I try to update my pool of clients - get this error:
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/jessie-backports/Release  Unable to find
> expected entry 'iceweasel-release/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file
> (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
> 
> // deb http://mozilla.debian.net <http://mozilla.debian.net/>
> jessie-backports iceweasel-release
> 
> I can assume that this consequence of recent renaming 'Iceweasel' ->
> 'Firefox' in Debian.
> But such removal (/dists/jessie-backports/iceweasel-release) leads to
> breakages of autoupdating on thousands of clients.
> 
> May we ask to return at least temporarily 'iceweasel-release' on an old
> path(/dists/jessie-backports/iceweasel-release)?

Seconded. Especially since several (meta) packages depend on iceweasel,
so installing firefox and deleting iceweasel gets messy. It would be
much nicer to leave it as iceweasel on jessie, and make the name change
for stretch.

Oh, and does firefox have to call itself 'Nightly'?

Richard