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icebraining on July 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Debian and the PHP license

Look, the version of Iceweasel in Debian Stable is based on Firefox 24. According to the Firefox ESR calendar, Firefox 24 will got out of support in October. But the new version of Debian Stable won't be released before December, at least, and Debian doesn't upgrade the major version of a package in Stable.

So how exactly can Debian patch Iceweasel using Mozilla's patches between October and January?

gcp on July 29, 2014 [–]

Debian will switch to a version supported by Mozilla, just as they've done the previous times. See for example: http://lwn.net/Articles/552920/

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