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Prepare yourself for the upcoming changes on the mozilla.debian.net repository
Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Thu Jul 7 10:39:08 UTC 2011

With the upcoming changes in the beta and aurora channels (6.0 is going
to reach beta, and 7.0 to reach aurora), the mozilla.debian.net
repository is going to adapt, and drop versioned archives in favor of
channel archives. The channel archives for beta and aurora already
existed, however what is new is the “release” channel. Currently, that
channel contains Iceweasel 5.0, but as soon as 6.0 is released, that’s
what the “release” channel will contain.

To summarize, if you added lines containing iceweasel-x.0 where x is 4,
5, or 6 in your /etc/apt/sources.list, you need to update it to the
corresponding channel (don’t forget 4.0 is dead, you should use
“release” instead).

The iceweasel-5.0 and iceweasel-6.0 archives still exist at the moment
but will be dropped as soon as the new aurora and beta releases are
ready, which should be real soon now (only waiting for actual upstream
releases).

As a somehow related note, it should be noted that Iceweasel 5.0 should
(finally) enter Debian unstable on the 15th of July, at which point the
latest 6.0 beta will also be uploaded to Debian experimental. It is
still unclear how long it will take for Iceweasel 5.0 to reach Debian
testing/wheezy, because of all the reverse dependencies, but when that
happens, we’ll also be able to push it to backports.debian.org.

Mike

emariz wrote: When will they care about the language packs?

bugsbunny wrote:See comments 2 and 3

rent0n wrote:I like the update, it makes sense given the new Mozilla release policy.

I'm just wondering what happened to Icedove. 3.1 has been moved to Debian Backports and there's no sign of 5.0 anywhere.
Any hint?

craigevil wrote:Still easier to just download Firefox and Thunderbird from Mozilla if you want to stay updated.

sej7278 wrote:

craigevil wrote:Still easier to just download Firefox and Thunderbird from Mozilla if you want to stay updated.

yes i'm thinking of doing that, gets rid of this debian naming crap then too - i can't even recognise the icons for iceweazel/icedove and whatever they call lightning.

is there any advantage of the debian packages over the tarball's from mozilla?

rent0n wrote:Yes, they get automatically updated. And that's a big plus.

craigevil wrote:Still easier to just download Firefox and Thunderbird from Mozilla if you want to stay updated.

sgosnell wrote:Iceweasel 7.0 is already in the Mozilla Experimental repo, but Icedove is still 3.1. Makes little sense to me, but then I'm not in charge of anything.

bugsbunny wrote:

sgosnell wrote:Iceweasel 7.0 is already in the Mozilla Experimental repo, but Icedove is still 3.1. Makes little sense to me, but then I'm not in charge of anything.

The same person isn't the maintainer for the 2 programs. The iceweasel maintainer is a member of the firefox development team, so is very current on what's going on. I'm not sure about the icedove maintainer.

craigevil wrote:Correct, Icedove is maintained by totally different people, for more info see:
Debian Package Tracking System - icedove - http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/icedove.html

passthejoe wrote:

craigevil wrote:Correct, Icedove is maintained by totally different people, for more info see:
Debian Package Tracking System - icedove - http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/icedove.html

Having Icedove exit http://mozilla.debian.net and enter Backports threw me for a bit. I already had Backports in my sources, so I had to remove my Icedove line that pointed to mozilla.debian.net to get the updates flowing again.

Like all, I'm waiting for Icedove 5.0. I'd also like a working Lightning for Icedove 3.1.x -- every time I try to add it, it kills Icedove until I start in safe mode and rip it out.

rent0n wrote:

sej7278 wrote: yes i'm thinking of doing that, gets rid of this debian naming crap then too - i can't even recognise the icons for iceweazel/icedove and whatever they call lightning.

is there any advantage of the debian packages over the tarball's from mozilla?

Yes, they get automatically updated. And that's a big plus.
I already have to manually update a couple of Java apps for computational biology and it reminds me the old Windows days.