# way too early to remove still reassign 370436 mozilla thanks On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:02:51PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Alexander Sack - Debian Bugmail a écrit : > > >On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:34:24AM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > > > > >>Package: mozilla > >>Severity: serious > >> > >>Mozilla applications are known to require a lot of maintainance, and > >>this is particularly true for the huge Mozilla suite. The 6 Mozilla > >>updates since Sarge's release should show that, each fixing an average > >>of about 10 security vulnerabilities that got CVE IDs assigned. The > >>difficulty of keeping Mozilla secure is expected to increase largely due > >>to the end of upstream support, already effective. Considering the > >>security track up to now in Sarge, and the important security drop > >>expected, even if the grave bugs currently opened against Mozilla suite > >>are resolved, the suite will most likely get to a point where it will be > >>better to remove it from stable Etch than keeping it, which is not > >>desirable. Instead, as there are alternatives to the Mozilla suite, > >>packages depending on Mozilla should find alternatives or be removed, > >>and then the Mozilla suite should be removed before Etch's release. > >> > >>Takuo, please reassign this to ftp.d.o unless you disagree. > >> > >> > > > >Takuo is MIA for this package. We are already taking care of this > >problem. Anyway, please push the ITP holder for seamonkey to finally > >upload his package .... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Thanks for the information about Takuo. seamonkey was already uploaded, > but was rejected by ftp-master. I'm reassigning to ftp.d.o. ftp-master > may choose to wait some time before proceeding, which could let > seamonkey become an "upgrade path". Otherwise, I think that removing > Mozilla now won't break unstable too badly. The main problem is eclipse > (#364368), which isn't in testing since a long time anyway. > > Note that there should be serious bugs against all source packages in > testing depending on mozilla-browser, except for about 10 mozilla-locale > packages.
Please provide a transition package for mozilla-browser from seamonkey, as soon as (but no earlier than) seamonkey is an adequate replacement in Debian. Mozilla is a major package with over 35% installed base in popcon. It shouldn't just be removed and leaving users without an upgrade path. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
