Re: [gentoo-dev] mozilla{-bin}/gecko-sdk masking

[Ned Ludd]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 19:39 -0500, Jory A. Pratt wrote:
> As many are aware by now mozilla{-bin} are full of security issues. I
> will be p.masking them tonight along with gecko-sdk. This is gonna cause
> some issues with stable tree I am aware of this. As packages break
> please reference bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137665 If
> you are able to provide a patch or diff against problem please provide
> and I or the dev/herd that maintaines will test and apply it as soon as
> possible.
>
> I was left with no option as packages are still being updated in the
> tree without being ported to seamonkey/firefox. Sorry for any
> inconvience this may cause you the user, but devs should be held
> responsible as they have had plenty of time to work out the problems.

I've been using seamonkey for a few weeks now without problems and am 
pleased with it but I don't believe a word you say about having no 
choice or devs having the option to fix stuff. You always had the 
option of porting patches. You always have options! You have held back 
taking the seadonkey out of p.masking till the very last min then 
forced an un-smooth upgrade path on everybody. Please don't shift the 
blame on others.. We have ~arch and blockers for stuff like this...

Please don't take this as a personal attack... I'm just calling shit as
I see it.


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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
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