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Re: Mozilla products in Debian (was: A question for the list:)



Why not simply grab the package from mozilla and install under /opt
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-----Original Message-----
From: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:38:21 
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Mozilla products in Debian (was: A question for the list:)

On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:30:11 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

(...)
 
> There is a third choice, I guess: Ship firefox / thunderbird in
> non-free. Support for non-free is best-effort, which basically means
> that if upstream is willing to fix it then the security team /
> maintainers will package it.  This basically results in Debian stable's
> non-free containing software with known security vulnerabilities that
> Mozilla is unwilling to fix.

How about "volatile"? :-?

ClamAV packages are there for that precisely reason (they need to be 
updated -security fixes- very often).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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