Re: Communicator removed from Testing?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:09:04AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> "Mark L. Kahnt" wrote:
> > Debian Weekly News warned a while back that it would get the hook, as a)
> > it is non-free, b) it is buggy and not getting noticeably better as
> > Netscape is looking to retire it in favour of Netscape 7, and c) it
> > wasn't even being kept up with the latest releases of that codebase from
> > Netscape.
>
> Yes, and with all of that said, some of us still prefer to use it for
> various reasons. Mozilla is not a 100% replacement as of yet as it runs
> too slowly on older systems, and in addition, the Mozilla mail/news just
> isn't as good yet.
>
> I know there are other alternatives to look at, as well as other ways to
> install Communicator. My point is simply that removing the Communicator
> packages, as justified as it may seem to many, is still something of a
> disservice to a portion of the Debian community.
Leaving it there with known security holes was worse ...
If you want it back, there is really only one option: find a developer
willing to maintain it properly. That's absolutely all it comes down to.
It wasn't removed because it was politically incorrect, or because
somebody had told us that Mozilla was a 100% replacement, or anything
like that. It was removed because it had four open release-critical
bugs, three of which were security holes, and all of which had been open
for more than six months.
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[Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 06:29:07 -0500] [ftpmaster: Anthony Towns]
Removed the following packages from unstable:
communicator | 1:4.77-2 | i386
navigator | 1:4.77-2 | i386
netscape | 1:4.77-2 | i386
netscape-base-4 | 1:4.77-2 | i386
netscape-base-4-libc5 | 1:4.77-2 | i386
netscape4.base | 1:4.77-2 | source
------------------- Reason -------------------
purged by RM; see bugs 145402
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[Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 06:30:58 -0500] [ftpmaster: Anthony Towns]
Removed the following packages from unstable:
communicator-base-477 | 4.77-2 | i386
communicator-nethelp-477 | 4.77-2 | all
communicator-smotif-477 | 4.77-2 | i386
communicator-spellchk-477 | 4.77-2 | all
navigator-base-477 | 4.77-2 | i386
navigator-nethelp-477 | 4.77-2 | all
navigator-smotif-477 | 4.77-2 | i386
netscape-base-477 | 4.77-2 | i386
netscape-ja-resource-477 | 4.77-2 | all
netscape-java-477 | 4.77-2 | all
netscape-ko-resource-477 | 4.77-2 | all
netscape-smotif-477 | 4.77-2 | i386
netscape4.77 | 4.77-2 | source
------------------- Reason -------------------
purged by RM; see bugs 145398 145399 113615
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Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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