Tails

#4 Updated by Anonymous 2015-12-14 06:55:53

On https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases, in the upcoming release section, only the releases marked as “moves to RELEASE” seem to be relevant for us as not BETA releases.

#8 Updated by Anonymous 2015-12-14 07:57:17

About MFSAs, they seem to be quite rare (november 2015, and before august 2015 for the last ones).

#11 Updated by Anonymous 2015-12-15 04:32:48

I’ve gotten quite a detailed answer from the Debian maintainers.

>> * Does upstream release a new Thunderbird at the same time as the new
>> Firefox?

Mostly but not necessary. The last releases of Thunderbird was always
delayed after the Firefox release. For example right today there was FF
43 released but Thunderbird will take some more days.

http://download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/
http://download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/

>> * How fast does it flow into Debian?

There we have to make some difference between experimental/unstable and
[old]stable-security.
For experimental and unstable I'm trying to be much as close to the
official release. It my happen within a few days, but sometimes it can
also take up two or three weeks. Problem is not Thunderbird only, but we
want to provide the language packages also. They are currently handled
by separate packages. But we plan to consolidate the packages.

[old]stable-security is done by Christoph, mostly near by the release of
Mozilla. New ESR versions take some more time due porting problems like
happen with 38.3. and 38.4.

Intrigeri & Anonym suggested that we might try to help the Debian folks to get the new upstream versions quicker into the Debian Vcs-Git so that we (Tails) might build our packages in time. In exchange this would help the Debian folks with QA relying on our build.

Discussion follow-up on tails-icedove I hope.

#13 Updated by Anonymous 2015-12-17 08:29:07

Follow up discussion/thread and more details: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-icedove/2015-December/000098.html

Getting the new upstream versions to Git is not much of a problem, but from what I understand, the things that take longer are:

1. the person doing most of the work is not a DD and cannot upload things himself
2. there is a huge patchset which has not been upstreamed and help would be required on this issue

I am not sure how much we are capable to help with 2., mostly because we lack time & work force.