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Re: On Mozilla-* updates



Greetings,

Am Montag, 1. August 2005 00:03 schrieb Micah:
> Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> >>There won't be _any_ Debian solution with the current mozilla.org policy.
> >
> > Not exactly. Correct statement is, '... with the current mozilla.org
> > policy AND Debian traditional way of doing things'.
> >
> > I agree with this statement.
> > I see the problem.
> >
> > The question is - how to solve it.
> > Mozilla.org policy is probably out of our control.
> > However, our way of doing things is not.
>
> Is Mozilla.org policy out of our control? If there was enough pressure
> on them to provided isolated security fixes they might actually do i 
> Perhaps they don't have any clue that this is a major issue for some of
> the largest linux distributions, and if they knew it was they might
> devote some energy towards being more friendly to their neighbors. Has
> anyone any definitive information, or is it just speculation? Has anyone
> actually spoken to people at Mozilla.org about this problem?

f you are ablte to understand german (or machnine translated text - I don't 
know which is more difficult ;-) this might help you.
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ticker/article.php?mid=1183

I don't have other rather offical data on this issue right now.

Keep smiling
yanosz



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