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Author: Irrwahn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] package request
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 02:04:08 -0400 (EDT), Peter Olson wrote:
> On June 14, 2016 at 1:43 AM Irrwahn <irrwahn@???> wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:37:59 -0400 (EDT), Peter Olson wrote:
>>>
>>> This is why there is Iceweasel instead of Firefox.
>>
>> Not anymore. It's plain "firefox" from Ascii (=Stretch) on.
>
> Well, I'm on Devuan Jessie.
>
> In Ascii, what are you really running?


Palemoon. SCNR; jokes aside:

> In Devuan Jessie, if I type firefox at the command prompt, it starts Iceweasel.


>From Debian Stretch (= Devuan Ascii) on there is no more

Iceweasel, but just Firefox and Firefox-ESR.

Quote from https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel:

| As documented at the article The end of the Iceweasel Age[1],
| Firefox is now in Debian again with the official name and
| branding.
|
| At Mozilla's request (see 815006), Debian now contains Mozilla
| “Firefox ESR” (Extended Support Release) as the firefox-esr
| package. Normal Debian support policies, including patches for
| bug fixes, apply to the package.
|
| [...]
|
| In Debian Stretch and later, the package iceweasel is a
| transitional package which installs the firefox-esr package.
| As of 9th of June, 2016 the package Firefox-ESR replaces
| Iceweasel, and is in Wheezy and Jessie security repositories.


[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/

Purportedly discussion is underway to rename Icedove Thunderbird.

Regards
Urban