Hi,
>If they're interested, they can follow the bug. They don't all need to >be CCed on every message. Indeed, I follow the bug :) and I propose to drop the cc in the next message >Who are these "quite a few users"? Where are they being confused? because they used to have an iceweasel package, and now they have a firefox instead (different desktop file, different branding) >> With this in stable, we can say to anyone who wants to keep Iceweasel: >> "Run this command: >> sudo apt-get install xul-ext-iceweasel-branding" >> >> Without bothering about backports. > >I understand the idea. I'm just not sure why this package is so special >that they shouldn't "bother with backports". the change iceweasel/firefox is in proposed-updates, so I proposed to have the package in the same suite >The relevant bits of that bug appear to be confused between the security >archive, proposed-updates and stable-updates, which is unfortunate. >(e.g. there is no firefox or iceweasel package in jessie-updates, nor >has there ever been one.) I'm not sure I follow here, but I tried to call rmadison on my machine (I might have given the wrong command, sorry in advance) son -u debian firefox-esr firefox-esr | 45.2.0esr-1~deb8u1 | proposed-updates | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x firefox-esr | 45.2.0esr-1 | testing | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x firefox-esr | 45.2.0esr-1 | unstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x so, my proposal was to upload firefox-branding-iceweasel to proposed-updates (security is OT here, and I don't want to discuss that suite here) >I suspect we disagree as to whether this is a "bug" to begin with. > >It was an intentional choice on the part of the maintainers and the >security team, and was announced in the corresponding DSA. Are there >really users who aren't reading DSAs but are happy to install software >as root just because you told them to? there might be users that wants their name back, not sure who they are, I don't want to have to answer here, but I still think giving users the choice is something sane that might avoid troubles or complains. Just my .02$ G.
