Re: libnss3, currently in testing
On Thursday 08 September 2016 19:02:31 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security
> > update into the wheezy repo's?
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>
> Please contact the Debian LTS people, and if this fix is not already
> in the priority queue, you could offer to sponsor the work required or
> something.
>
> > I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just opened.
>
> Gene, may I humbly suggest you should get a new box for non-Linux-CNC
> work, and keep that wheezy box you use for Linux-CNC off the grid so
> that it doesn't become a liability in the future?
Liability? Only if its destroyed on purpose by a malicious update. I
have a router with dd-wrt reflashed into it. No back doors. And it
stops _all_ the unfunny stuff. And according to the error message I get
when I run firefox-esr from a terminal, SSL is missing. But its not, FF
just can't find it. IMO firefox-esr is a disaster despite the hype.
> You will be happier in the medium/long term after the investment in
> the new box pays itself off, Debian jessie should work much better
> overall for you for desktopish things (i.e. not Linux-CNC), and the
> rest of us will be happier even sooner because we will have less
> support requests related to oldstable to attend to[1] ;-)
>
> Paypal works just fine with firefox in a standard Debian 8.6 install.
>
> [1] Any work done for stable and unstable/testing _usually_ helps a
> lot more people than work done for oldstable.
I can appreciate that, but wheezy is supposed to have security support
until sometime in 2018, but this gradual destruction of a formerly
working system just to get folks to update smells an awful lot like
fedora, and that rebuild your system every 30 days got old, very fast,
so I bailed to mandrake all those years ago. And now its happening
again. All I want is a system that Just Works(TM) and now it isn't.
Sometime today I'll see if I can figure out how to install the real
mozilla firefox 48.something tarball. Maybe even make it use the new
flashplayer.so, now at major version 23 something. I already have them
downloaded.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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