Re: Release-critical Bug Report for November 7

[jdg@maths.qmw.ac.uk (Julian Gilbey)]

> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I wonder whether bug #28995 (netscape3 gives a bus error and dies)
> > should be upgraded to an important bug -- the package seems to not
> > work at all in its current state.
> 
> Personally I can't reproduce this. I don't mind removing this package
> since we have a bunch of newer netscapes anyway.
> 
> Wichert.

The problem has now been identified: the current slink xbase package
does not provide a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale directory, and this kills
Netscape.

I _like_ Netscape 3: it works, it works far faster than Netscape 4,
and it has a much simpler GUI in my humble opinion.  And while
Netscape still offers binaries, why can't we support it?
Incidentally, this is separate from the question of how many different
versions of Netscape 4 or Mozilla we should support.

   Julian

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