reassign 382956 ftp.debian.org
retitle 382956 RM: mozilla -- unmaintained, dead upstream, RC-buggy
reassign 370436 ftp.debian.org
forcemerge 382956 370436
thanks
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.
