Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> > Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion
> > consistently?
>
> Although that makes me very sad, if we (collectively) give up packaging
> browser extensions (hence letting our users rely on third-party repositories
> to get access to [non-]free binaries) and frozen browsers in stable, then
> maybe the correct answer to your question is "none".
And do you think that would be the best outcome for Debian users? FWIW,
I don't. I think the compromise that the security team is proposing is
much more reasonable than such an alternative.
Note that the presence of non-free extension in the 3rd party
repositories that come pre-configured with Debian-distributed browsers
(and incresingly more other software) is a different problem. And one we
should tackle, IMHO, but that's for a separate discussion.
Cheers.
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