Re: to reiterate, why are there no security updates on the front page? (Or, 17 security holes the security team hasn't told you about)
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 04:39:20AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> >
> > Problem yes, removed no. That's rather draconian.
>
> why? all archetectures are in this together no? if some package is
> broken on sparc thus having the last RC bug. but the every other arch
> and package is fine do we release potato without sparc?
Yes, but netscape is special.
> i realize its not an exact comparison given that netscape is one big
> RC bug in and of itself but debian does not want to remove it given
> that it would make us a laughing stock, but still 4.7 is an improvment
> and the powerpc users are PISSED that debian refuses to package it.
I did not refuse to pkg it. I don't have a ppc to test on, and ppc bins are
not released by netscape. We depend on linuxppc to do that. Then, when the
binary was available the deb of it wasn't allowed into the archive, because we
were frozen.
>
> > We are not other distributions. And why is having a version on powerpc that
> > is older than i386 a rc bug?
>
> because 4.6 is all but unusable it should be removed for that reason,
> but AFAIK packages cannot be removed from one archecture but not the
> others. (dark refused to do this after a request from a maintainer
> iirc) the RC bug is that netscape is mostly worthless as is, not that
> its outdated per se.
No, it should not be removed for that reason.
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