Bug#831447: firefox-branding-iceweasel 0.4.0 MIGRATED to testing

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hi Antonio and Holger,


>> And while I applaud and understand why firefox-esr has replaced

>> iceweasel in stable, I was also surprised. And I also saw Debian Edu
>> stable break because of this… and we're still fixing it, waiting for
>> 8.6 to bring these fixes to our users.
>> 
>> (The latter is not related to this bug report except that they are
>> caused by the same change. We are fixing Debian Edu to use firefox-esr.)

is firefox-branding-iceweasel able to mitigate this issue?

>I understand, but we would have to cope with the change at some point,
>unless we were to keep the broken situation forever. Dealing with it now

>is not worse than dealing with it later.

I fully agree, but how does an additional package in the archive, not
automatically installed, hurts your plan?

We already have the package in testing, we can keep it for a couple of
releases and then drop it (on unstable).
I don't see why disrupt our end users life when we can avoid it.

thanks for the input, it was appreciated ;)

Gianfranco