Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS
Hi,
On Thu, 12 May 2016, Guido Günther wrote:
> I have maintained icedove a while ago and know the codebase a bit. I'm
> also sure we might get support from the current maintainers as long as
> we're able to build the ESR releases for wheezy - which is Debian's
> standard way to deal with Firefox/Thundergbird security updates. I can
> look into building icedove 31.8 for wheezy. I could also check if we can
> build 45.x which would keep us covered for at least another year:
>
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
>
> So should we try to support ice{dove,weasel} at least for th3 45.x series?
+1 from my side, even though we don't have any explicit support request
from companies, it would really useful for end users and desktop
deployments.
> > qemu and qemu-kvm were triaged as unsupported for CVE-2016-3712, but I
> > think Guido is studying how to support virtualisation related packages,
> > and maybe we should wait for his evaluation.
>
> I had zero feedback on supporting qemu so I'd propose to drop it. We can
> keep libvirt in the current version if we don't update qemu and it seems
> to be in use in Wheezy quiet a bit (and dropping it would kill of quiet
> some programs due to the dependency chain) so I'd propose to keep it.
I would like us to look for other ways to support qemu before deciding to
drop it, cf my other mail, maybe we should look for external support as
well.
Cheers,
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