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Re: Removing mozilla from sid/etch?



On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:24:41AM +0200, Andreas Metzler
<ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> Hej, The recently released mozilla 1.7.13 is supposed to be the last
> release of the mozilla suite.
> 
> http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/04/12/sunset-announcement-for-fxtb-10x-and-mozilla-suite-17x/
> | These releases will include the final set of official security and |
> stability updates for Firefox 1.0.x, Thunderbird 1.0.x and Mozilla |
> Suite 1.7.x.  [...] | While the Mozilla Corporation product strategy
> continues to be focused | on the individual end-user, Mozilla will
> continue to work with | downstream enterprise-oriented distributors
> and support vendors to | provide a program to enable extended support
> for otherwise legacy | releases.
> 
> I do not think we want to ship something in etch that is not supported
> today.
> 
> It cannot be done immediately, as a couple of packages[1]
> (openoffice[2], ...) link against mozilla libraries (libnspr4,
> libnss3) but I think it should be a release goal, shouldn't it?

It is my release goal to have most of these packages use the libs from
xulrunner.

Mike



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