Re: mozilla - the forgotten package?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:32:30PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> There's no obvious solution. If Debian sticks to 1.0 on principle,
> there's nothing we can do. It's unlikely we'll find a volunteer who
> backports all those fixes to 1.0. I haven't found any commercial
> distributor who still supports 1.0, either.
>
> If we integrate 1.4 (that is, 1.4.2) into stable, we can take security
> fixes from upstream and/or other distributors. It might still be a lot
> of work (I'm going to try it next weekend or so), but it looks like a
> more manageable task.
This introduces a whole new set of problems, given Mozilla's upgrade history
(not preserving user configuration data, breaking compatibility with
dependent applications, etc.)
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- mdz
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