[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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