Bug#819371: Please depend on "firefox | firefox-esr" rather than the reverse

Tue Dec 5 10:48:02 UTC 2017

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:51:46AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> As for the original bug here, I think the ordering of firefox-esr over
> firefox reflects the intent of the Debian Firefox maintainer. The
> firefox package is completely unsupported in Debian Testing (it won't
> receive any updates). I don't want someone to accidentally figure that
> out when they try to do an unsupported downgrade from Unstable to
> Testing.

Downgrading from unstable to testing is exactly that: unsupported. If
someone is running testing, "firefox | firefox-esr" will resolve to
firefox-esr, as desired. If someone *is* running unstable, getting the
latest version of firefox seems preferable.