The return of Iceweasel

The return of Iceweasel

Posted Sep 25, 2006 18:28 UTC (Mon) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
In reply to: The return of Iceweasel by dlang
Parent article: The return of Iceweasel

> you say that firefox ships version 1.0.4, however remember that debian
> decided it was too hard to really backport changes and instead ships
> the new version under the old version number (in order to comply with
> their 'now version changes' policy, something that never made sense to
> me)

Really? That's pretty shocking!

> I can't see this policy causing anything other then confusion with bug
> reports, so I really understand the mozilla attitude.

Well, I can see where such a move by Debian would (if it is true) be a
really bad thing. I fully understand and agree that Mozilla can do
whatever it wants to with its own code and trademarks. But even in light
of Debian's apparent wrongdoing in release management, I don't think the
Mozilla Foundation's attitude or policy is acceptable. I hope (and
believe) Debian will stick to its guns on the DFSG issue, both for
reasons of creating a quality end-user experience and for reasons of free
software policy.

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