Iceweasel 3.5 and friends

Iceweasel 3.5 is now available from lenny-experimental. It is a backport with no modifications from Debian Experimental. In order to get this built and installed, a few other backports were needed so, these are available too.  These are:

  • Xulrunner 1.9.1 (in lenny-experimental)
  • Libnspr4 (in lenny-backports)
  • Libsqlite3 (in lenny-backports)

A note of relative importance:

The source package of Xulrunner 1.9.1 build-depends on Libnspr4-dev >= 4.8. This version is not available in Lenny, hence the  backport. However, the binary package xulrunner-1.9.1 depends on Libnspr4 >> 4.7.1-1. Since Lenny ships with version 4.7.1-4 at the time of writing, installation of Xulrunner 1.9.1 does not require the backport. These versions are ‘hard coded’ in Xulrunner’s debian/control. However, this could possibly cause problems, if Xulrunner uses features from Libnspr 4.8, that are not available in 4.7. You are advised to install libnspr4-0d 4.8-1 from lenny-backports to avoid problems. I still have to investigate if this is actually a bug.

Right now, only amd64 binaries are available.

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