[csw-maintainers] time to deprecate CSWmozilla

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Fri Jun 3 19:57:34 CEST 2011


Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Fri Jun 03 13:43:55 -0400 2011:

> Actually, I think "seamonkey" was already supposed to "replace"
> mozilla for most everyone that cared. we most likely only kept it
> around for header files.

I think that's likely right.

> There's just a question remaining, about what to do about the 2
> packages that depend on it.
> They are both rather old.. (and orphaned), but unfortunately, both
> sound somewhat useful.
> 
> epiphany    The web browser for the GNOME Desktop
> liferea    news aggregator for online news feeds

Both of these will be vulnerable to all the same exploits as the
ancient mozilla since they use its rendering engine.  Let's remove
them too...unless somebody wants to modernize them?

Thanks
-Ben
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Ben Walton
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