[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#844653: Bug#844653: stylish FTBFS in testing: firefox-dev won't be in stretch

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sun Nov 20 07:55:30 UTC 2016


On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 04:40:00PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 November 2016 9:44:39 PM AEDT Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > firefox-dev is not in stretch, and it is not planned that it
> > ever will be (see #817954).
> > 
> > firefox-esr-dev might be the alternative, but the Mozilla maintainers
> > (Cc'ed on this bug) should be able to give a more definite answer
> > on that.
> 
> What exactly am I expected to do about this bug?? If "firefox-dev" is not 
> meant to be in Stretch than it should have "serious" bug instead of packages 
> that depend on "firefox-dev". 

Wait what? Packages that build depend on a package that is not in
stretch are in stretch? WTF?

> Should I just replace "firefox-dev" with "firefox-esr-dev"?

Probably.

Mike



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