On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:18:36PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I have some issues with the upcoming 2.2r3 release of Debian. > > 1) Communicator still doesn't work on PowerPC (I'm currently using > testing with kernel 2.4.2). That's OK because I'd prefer to use Mozilla > anyway, *but* unfortunately Mozilla M18-3 is quite old now. The Mozilla > people have made an official release (0.8) which should probably go in > stable (but probably wont) and should certainly be in unstable/testing. > I currently can not use any Internet banking because Java and/or SSL is > not supported in Mozilla M18-3 (at least it doesn't appear so). I have you can add on psm to M18 but its a pain. far simpler to just install the 0.8 packages i have at penguinppc.org. > installed netscape-browswer-4.6 on stable to get this functionality but > it is broked on unstable/testing. I'd really like to see Mozilla get > updated so I can ditch using Communicator ASAP. Does the powerpc > mozilla maintainer lurk on this list ? <wink> there is only one maintainer for mozilla, and he has said mozilla won't be uploaded until debian's policy allows for crypto in main (not non-US). or at least that is the way i read his post to -devel [1]. if this is really true i doubt we will see updated mozilla packages for monthes. He is also completely redoing the packaging so the bloat will be split into several packages. that will take some time. [1] the other options being, remove crypto from mozilla and upload to main, which will just result in bitching since a browser without ssl support is rather impotent. or upload it and everything depending on mozilla to non-US, this is a group of rather large packages. or get a lawyer to comment on crypto in debian main (US) and adopt that as policy, which may be risky (the current US exports regs are not law). > 2) The 2.4.x kernels are not available for PowerPC in stable/unstable. > I had to FTP a copy of the source from fsmlabs to use it. I'm not sure probably because upstream 2.4 source is broken on powerpc, and AFAIK that means a kernel patch or something similer has to be packaged. > if 2.4.x issues affect stable or not but I'd still like to see a 2.4 is not supported on stable officially, though there are a few people backporting packages needed for it to stable (i386 only it appears) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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