Bug #8038

Useless confusing lines for iceweasel in APT preferences

Added by alant 2014-10-09 07:40:56 . Updated 2014-10-16 08:11:22 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Tails_1.2
Start date:
2014-10-09
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
bugfix/8038-remove-useless-iceweasel-apt-pinning
Type of work:
Code
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Starter:
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Description

The following lines in /etc/apt/preferences are confusing as:

- they won’t actually block the installation of iceweasel which is still in debian repos
- iceweasel is now removed from our apt repo

+Explanation: Block installation of iceweasel until it has been removed from our APT repo
+Package: iceweasel
+Pin: origin deb.tails.boum.org
+Pin-Priority: -1

See also discussion at https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-September/006944.html

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History

#1 Updated by anonym 2014-10-09 07:56:29

  • Assignee set to anonym
  • Target version set to Tails_1.2

#2 Updated by anonym 2014-10-10 05:48:05

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • Assignee changed from anonym to alant
  • % Done changed from 0 to 50
  • QA Check set to Ready for QA
  • Feature Branch set to bugfix/8038-remove-useless-iceweasel-apt-pinning

While the explanation wasn’t that good, it did block the installation from our repos, and the equivs-generated package seemed to have higher priority than Debian’s package, so it wasn’t upgraded.

Optimistically assigning review to the bug reporter.

#3 Updated by bertagaz 2014-10-13 09:00:47

  • Assignee changed from alant to bertagaz

#4 Updated by bertagaz 2014-10-14 03:23:08

  • Status changed from In Progress to Fix committed
  • Assignee deleted (bertagaz)
  • % Done changed from 50 to 100
  • QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Pass

#5 Updated by anonym 2014-10-16 08:11:22

  • Status changed from Fix committed to Resolved