Le mercredi 15 septembre 2004 à 20:08 +0200, Martin Schulze a écrit : > > Speaking of stable updates, will you consider, for sarge point releases, > > accepting some new upstreams for large packages that are not supported > > otherwise, security-speaking? > > I don't think so, especially since you are probably talking about the > GNOME empire. GNOME bugfixes are generally easy to backport, so that's not the point. > > For example, will you accept new Mozilla upstreams? We have been > > shipping woody for a long time with mozilla packages containing known > > security holes, maybe we don't want this for sarge. > > No. Mozilla interfears with other programs that would have to be updated > as well and require even more packages and more updates, it's a whole new > can of worms. Just as the kernel is. Will you stop providing updates for the kernel packages because of the same reason? IMHO, this is insane. It means we have absolutely zero support for security updates on e.g. mozilla or OOo. This is a great disservice to our users. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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