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. The Firefox logo was released under a free copyright license which matches the DFSG. = About Debian stable = To simplify the maintenance of the current stable Debian release, the name iceweasel will remain. Debian Stretch, the next release, will have Firefox as package name. = About Icedove/Thunderbird = Similar discussions with the icedove maintainers have just started to do the same for this package. The attached patch implements the changes.
>From ec87402e21da009b17993cae6f63d4f9f2a12196 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:54:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] * Rename iceweasel to Firefox - iceawesel package is now a transition package to Firefox --- debian/changelog | 7 +++++++ debian/control.in | 11 ++++++++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 27c11ea..9647bed 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +firefox (44.0-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Rename iceweasel to Firefox + - iceawesel package is now a transition package to Firefox + + -- Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 05:32:17 -0500 + iceweasel (44.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in index 56184ad..b5785a0 100644 --- a/debian/control.in +++ b/debian/control.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Source: iceweasel +Source: firefox Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> @@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ Description: Development files for the Gecko engine library same form as the one you may find on mozilla.org in /usr/lib/xulrunner/sdk. Homepage: http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Lib_XUL +%if browser == OFFICIAL_NAME +Package: iceweasel +Architecture: any +Depends: @browser@ +Description: Mozilla Firefox web browser - transition package + This is a transition package to the Firefox browser +%endif + + Package: @browser@-l10n-all Architecture: all Section: localization -- 2.7.0
