Re: [Tails-dev] Ship iceweasel -esr branch?

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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Ship iceweasel -esr branch?
03/21/2012 01:18 PM, intrigeri:
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> I think we should do the same as Debian Wheezy.
>
> Deciding to follow the -release branch instead would have a few
> drawbacks for us:
>  - continuously need to wait and cherry-pick updated add-ons from sid
>    (as we've been doing for a while, breaks the build process more
>    often than not)
>  - no security support from the Debian security team
>  - more work to get a new iceweasel, that fixes this or that serious
>    security issues, integrated into Tails, due to the need to do
>    a major iceweasel upgrade => more days of exposure to security bugs
>    for Tails users

>
> Thoughts?


My only though is that I agree with this proposal wholeheartedly.

Cheers!