Re: Bug#395252: ignore bug 395252 'mplayer embeds ffmpeg' for lenny
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On 06/18/08 10:11, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:09:06PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> 2) Another point is that
>> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/secure-testing/data/embedded-code-copies?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
>> lists many packages which ship embedded copies. One example is
>> mozilla/iceweasel/iceape. Iceweasel had 9 security bugs in Etch.
>> Iceweasel has ~500 bugs (!!). So iceweasel should be kept out of
>> Lenny, since it contains embedded copies of code and is quite
>> buggy. But no one is ever posting this RC bug. Why? Beats me.
>
> Note iceweasel 3.0, which is planned for Lenny, while it contains
> embedded copy of code, does *not* use it. Find another example.
Contains embedded code, but doesn't use it?
And it hasn't been/can't be stripped out? (I've been in the
industry long enough to know that that is a symptom of serious,
systemic problems within the application.)
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