Re: Iceweasel as a gnome-core dependency?
Thanks, Adam. That helped.
What I'm unclear on: why is this applicable to the gnome-core package in
particular, as Xfce is the default desktop environment for Debian now.
Is the security policy such that no metapackage should depend on a
WebKit-based browser?
Paul
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 08:17 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On 12.10.2012 03:24, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> > I found a bug[1] in gnome-core that seemed related to this issue, and
> > seconded the call for removing the iceweasel dependency. The response
> > was that security was the driver for this, and that I should report
> > iceweasel's lack of GNOME support as a bug.
> >
> > 1. Is there any background or conversation the RT had that I can look
> > at
> > to better understand their decision? I can't seem to source anything
> > relevant.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682481 is the
> meta-gnome3 bug, which has contributions from the security team. The
> release-notes discussion in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683428 is also
> relevant.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>
>
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