Bug#350740: Reassign
# way too early to remove still
reassign 370436 mozilla
thanks
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:02:51PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Alexander Sack - Debian Bugmail a écrit :
>
> >On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:34:24AM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Package: mozilla
> >>Severity: serious
> >>
> >>Mozilla applications are known to require a lot of maintainance, and
> >>this is particularly true for the huge Mozilla suite. The 6 Mozilla
> >>updates since Sarge's release should show that, each fixing an average
> >>of about 10 security vulnerabilities that got CVE IDs assigned. The
> >>difficulty of keeping Mozilla secure is expected to increase largely due
> >>to the end of upstream support, already effective. Considering the
> >>security track up to now in Sarge, and the important security drop
> >>expected, even if the grave bugs currently opened against Mozilla suite
> >>are resolved, the suite will most likely get to a point where it will be
> >>better to remove it from stable Etch than keeping it, which is not
> >>desirable. Instead, as there are alternatives to the Mozilla suite,
> >>packages depending on Mozilla should find alternatives or be removed,
> >>and then the Mozilla suite should be removed before Etch's release.
> >>
> >>Takuo, please reassign this to ftp.d.o unless you disagree.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Takuo is MIA for this package. We are already taking care of this
> >problem. Anyway, please push the ITP holder for seamonkey to finally
> >upload his package .... jaldhar@debian.org
> >
> Thanks for the information about Takuo. seamonkey was already uploaded,
> but was rejected by ftp-master. I'm reassigning to ftp.d.o. ftp-master
> may choose to wait some time before proceeding, which could let
> seamonkey become an "upgrade path". Otherwise, I think that removing
> Mozilla now won't break unstable too badly. The main problem is eclipse
> (#364368), which isn't in testing since a long time anyway.
>
> Note that there should be serious bugs against all source packages in
> testing depending on mozilla-browser, except for about 10 mozilla-locale
> packages.
Please provide a transition package for mozilla-browser from seamonkey,
as soon as (but no earlier than) seamonkey is an adequate replacement in
Debian. Mozilla is a major package with over 35% installed base in
popcon. It shouldn't just be removed and leaving users without an
upgrade path.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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