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Re: On Mozilla-* updates



Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 04:57:31PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> > IMHO, sloopy security support (by uploading new upstream versions) is
>> > better than no security support.
>> 
>> Are you prepared to make sure all the packages that depend on mozilla
>> will have packages ready to enter at once?
>
> Are you prepared to kick all packages that depend on mozilla out of
> Debian completely?  

How about actually maintaining them?

> That's the choice we've got.  Moving them to
> backports.org or volatile, which are not carried by the mirror network,
> not included in the default apt sources.list, and not getting DSA
> announcements, IMHO, counts as "kicking them out of Debian".

Oh, I see.  I think the whole point of volatile is that it is *part*
of Debian.



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