Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

[tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@hotmail.com> writes:

>>> $ apt-cache policy dillo
>>> dillo:
>>>   Installed: 0.8.6-3
>>>   Candidate: 0.8.6-3
>>>   Version table:
>>>  *** 0.8.6-3 0
>>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>> Which indicates that dillo is *not* in Lenny.
>
>   I don't  recall  doing anything special to install dillo
>   from any other source, but my lack of recall may also 
>   be indicative of personal wetware memory problems .... :-) 
>
>   It's possible that this particular installation of Lenny
>   actually started out as Etch that already had Dillo installed
>   and then later Etch was upgraded to Lenny ....

Dillo was in Lenny, but was pulled due to what some considered a serious
security flaw. As I understand it, once Lenny was frozen, the bug was
found and deemed too serious to fix before the release, so the package
was pulled instead:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510348

Tyler

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