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Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)



* Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> [040920 19:46]:
> Serving our users is more important than slavish adherance to leaving
> stable almost untouched.

And trying to give our users a system that will not suddenly stop
working is not serving them?

> Solution a: Newer versions of Mozilla are introduced. Functional
> regressions are possible. However, admins have the choice of setting
> Mozilla's status to hold. In the worst case, this solution can be made
> equivilent to the current situation.

What if the the second security update is a minor easily
backportable fix? Will it also applied to packages untouched
by the first security fix that introduced large functional changes?
How can the admin install those easily?

> Solution c: We don't ship Mozilla. This is always equivilent to the
> worst case of the current situation.

This is a wrong assumption in my eyes. Having it in the archive gives
some kind of garantees people rely on.


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