Bug#840345: firefox-esr: update packaged add-ons automatically

[att2000it at yahoo.it]

Subject: firefox-esr: update packaged add-ons automatically
Package: firefox-esr
Version: 45.4.0esr-1~deb8u2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

After the transition from Iceweasel to Firefox-ESR, the browser is now configured to update add-ons automatically.
This apply also to packaged add-ons that are quite different than the upstream version (e.g. noscript).

I tagged this bug with "wishlist" because it's easy to find a (per-user) workaround. However I'm not sure that allowing autoupdates is compliant with the Debian policies; in this case please increase the severity.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Athos Toniolo

-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi
Package: firefox-esr
Status: enabled

Name: Firefox Hello Beta
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/loop at mozilla.org.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: NoScript
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}
Package: xul-ext-noscript
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information

-- Addons package information
ii  firefox-esr    45.4.0esr-1~ i386         Mozilla Firefox web browser - Ext
ii  xul-ext-noscri 2.9.0.11-1~d all          permissions manager for Firefox

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages firefox-esr depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.4+b1
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1
ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-18+deb8u6
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-2
ii  libffi6                   3.1-2+b2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u2
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.9-9
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages firefox-esr recommends:
ii  gstreamer1.0-libav         1.4.4-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.4.4-2

Versions of packages firefox-esr suggests:
pn  fonts-lmodern          <none>
pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-2.1
pn  libgnomeui-0           <none>
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u2
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information

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