[actually, my original mail had to go to d-release, but I miss-auto-completed the To:] Bill Allombert ha scritto: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:09:09PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: >> anyway, shortly after I wrote that email, the situation reverted again >> (for worse); so currently there is no agreement between me and Aurelien, >> and I put that matter to d-ctte, in bug 402772 the d-ctte, and all other people, settled for this final agreement - the bug 395252 should stay RC , but - the bug is though 'etch-ignore' > If you need an example of massive code duplication between > security-sensitive packages, I offer iceweasel and icedove: > > LANG=C diff -sr icedove-1.5.0.8.dfsg1/build-dir/mozilla/ iceweasel-2.0+dfsg/ | grep "are identical"|wc -l > 21131 > > So there are at least 21131 fully duplicated files between this two > packages. thanks for the tip I agree with you... moreover, iceweasel/firefox , icedove/thunderbird , etc etc , have been a frequent source of security problems indeed this kind of argument was already presented in the discussion of the bug 395252 , but it did not work it seems that MPlayer is kind of a lighting rod for criticism and strong feelings a.
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