Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?
On 2005-08-17 09:34:02 +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> Yes. But you may want to search the archives of the debian-user and
> debian-devel mailing lists of the past few weeks, as there have been
> discussions about this subject. I have hardly read it all, but I
> think there were people running testing that had no problem installing
> the plain tarball from mozilla.org.
I don't know about Firefox, but the following bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246524
mozilla should protect special characters from interpretation by the shell
has never been fixed in Mozilla. Note that the scripts provided in
the Debian packages don't have this problem.
> True, and I've used testing for well over a year, until sarge became
> stable. But unstable doesn't seem to be that bad, though I don't
> think anyone will recommend it for servers. Installing apt-listbugs
> and apt-listchanges will help. And yes, you must be prepared for the
> occasional breakage.
With testing too.
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