Re: A Round of Removals
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:41:23PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> > Both acroread and netscape have security bugs that we CANNOT reasonably fix
> > due to their non-freeness. These are probably two of the most justified
> > removals. It is possible that newer versions of Netscape Navigator (at
> > least 4.79 seems to exist) may fix this bug, but I cannot say for sure.
> > Newer versions of Acrobat Reader are not redistributable (see the BTS), so
> > this needs to go anyway.
>
> Yes and what think about create an acroread-installer package?
I am not at all interested in creating such a package. The bug is over 6
months old and no other developer has shown interest in making one. If you
would like to maintain one, then you should start immediately.
Even if someone creates an installer package, the acroread package must be
removed.
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- mdz
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