Prepare yourself for the upcoming changes on the mozilla.debian.net repository
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.
2011-07-07 12:25:21+0900
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
2011-07-07 12:51:11+0900
Hi,
I read your previous posts regarding mozilla.debian.net.
Could you make it clear that it is for x86 and amd64 architectures only, please?
Ta,
Raf
2011-07-07 15:02:43+0900
Hey Mike, have you considered what we talked about in the FOSDEM bus? Is it feasible to suck the l10n stuff into an extra source tarball for iceweasel?
2011-07-07 15:10:54+0900
Jordi: l10n is on my TODO list, but I haven’t had time for it yet.
2011-07-07 16:00:28+0900
[…] in den Kommentaren auf das neue Versionsschema von Iceweasel in der sources.list hingewiesen hat. Im Blog des Debian Paketverwalters für Iceweasel wurde heute angekündigt, dass Iceweasel als Release […]
2011-07-07 18:19:11+0900
Thanks for adding the “release” channel; exactly what I’d like to use on stable boxen. Would you consider adding a “release” channel for Icedove as well?
Also, would you mind taking a look at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mozilla-maintainers/2011-June/009997.html ?
2011-07-07 20:49:22+0900
Like the other commenter named Josh, I really appreciate the “release” channel. Thanks.
2011-07-08 00:19:46+0900
So far you can pull the l10n packages from experimental onto your squeeze installation, if the major version fits. But it would be nice to have them in the mozilla.d.n repository as well. ;-)
2011-07-08 20:30:23+0900
Hello,
Thanks for your work.
I’m not sure you’re in charge with it, but what about Icedove 5.0 ?
Afaik, it’s not in the repos right now. Do you know if there are plans to upload it ?
2011-07-10 15:11:13+0900
+1 for icedove (thunderbird) 5
2011-07-11 06:39:15+0900
Hi, thanks for the change. Now i can leave the config file and assured that Iceweasel will rolling on the newest version available.
2011-07-12 20:30:42+0900
is there a repo for nightly build? i see that firefox 8 just came out, would be great if iceweasel would have a nightly version.
2011-07-13 17:37:04+0900
I was considering tracking nightlies before the rapid release process came into action, but now with the rapid release process it would just be too much additional work.
2011-07-14 10:22:16+0900
What about the integration of the patches from OpenSuse regarding KDE-integration (at least as an additional build)? Opening files with the standard application of KDE or choosing another one using the “Choose Application†dialog from KDE wxould be a big improvement!
Posting this question again as I think my first one has got lost in the shuffle.
Regards
denk
2011-07-15 11:40:05+0900
The upload in unstable should be done today! Cool!
2011-07-16 09:32:42+0900
[…] v debiánu pÅ™icházà pár zmÄ›n, na které je lepÅ¡Ã být pÅ™ipravat, tak se to aspoň pÃÅ¡e na […]
2011-07-17 03:59:14+0900
[…] v debiánu pÅ™icházà pár zmÄ›n, na které je lepÅ¡Ã být pÅ™ipravat, tak se to aspoň pÃÅ¡e na […]
2011-07-18 14:11:46+0900
Mike, congratulations on getting v5 into unstable! I am using it now, works great.
2011-07-24 06:19:24+0900
You forgot to update?
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
Any chance icedove catching up on the release?
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
is still on 3.1
2011-07-24 19:14:11+0900
anything new on Icedove front? If you need help with debranding and packaging I am volunteering
2011-07-26 10:15:36+0900
good, but what bout Icedove?
2011-08-02 21:55:04+0900
Hi! Thanks for all the work that goes in to this! Is there any updates on Icedove 5 though? I’m really eager to try it out.
2011-08-10 09:07:26+0900
Iceweasel migration to Testing
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=iceweasel;printalldeps=1
As of today, we finally have met all the required dependencies in Testing and have a candidate that is >= 10 days old.
HOWEVER, the migration report is now showing:
– Updating iceweasel makes 84 depending packages uninstallable on i386:
* 79 localization pkgs, eg iceweasel-l10n-all
* 5 others: libopenvrml-dev, libopenvrml9, mozvoikko, openvrml-lookat, python-xpcom
– Updating iceweasel makes 30 non-depending packages uninstallable on i386: google-gadgets-gtk, google-gadgets-qt, google-gadgets-xul, libgtk-mozembed-ruby, libgtk-mozembed-ruby1.8, libgtk-mozembed-ruby1.8-dbg, mongodb, mongodb-clients, mongodb-dev, mongodb-server, plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets, plasma-scriptengines, pyjamas, pyjamas-desktop, python-hulahop, ruby-gnome2, ruby-gnome2-dev, sucrose-0.84, sucrose-0.86, sucrose-0.88, sugar-browse-activity-0.84, sugar-browse-activity-0.86, task-kannada-desktop, tasksel-kannada-desktop-meta-faux, tuxguitar, tuxguitar-alsa, tuxguitar-fluidsynth, tuxguitar-jack, tuxguitar-jsa, tuxguitar-oss (recur was tried but failed)
What’s the plan forward?
Now that iceweasel’s dependencies are resolved, when can we expect to see iceweasel > 3.5.19 in Testing?
2011-08-29 16:57:20+0900
How is the proposal of renaming Iceweasel back to Firefox progressing?
2011-09-19 09:07:53+0900
So, 5.x has been in testing for awhile, and now 6.x is a candidate; however, while it too now meets all required dependencies and is >= 10 days old, migration is similarly blocked:
Why is package X not in testing yet?
Checking iceweasel
trying to update iceweasel from 5.0-6 to 6.0.2-1 (candidate is 12 days old)
Updating iceweasel makes 92 depending packages uninstallable on i386:
* 92 localization pkgs, eg: iceweasel-l10n-all
Updating iceweasel makes 3 non-depending packages uninstallable on i386:
* mozvoikko — dep: libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10) [believe this is the referenced dependency]
* task-kannada-desktop — binary package task-kannada-desktop, previously provided by tasksel, is now obsolete
* tasksel-kannada-desktop-meta-faux — tasksel-kannada-desktop-meta-faux is not available in Debian
info: iceweasel has a version in experimental (7.0~b5-1)
So, if 5.x migrated to testing with a superset including the 6.x migration blockers, why is 6.x similarly delayed from migration? Does this require manual hinting? Will we have to revisit this every new release (eg 7.x, 8.x, etc)?
Thanks!