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

[Jason Wever]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:39:39 -0500
"Jory A. Pratt" <anarchy@g.o> 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.

Seamonkey doesn't even work on at least one architecture.  Please do
not mask mozilla until this is fixed.  If the security issues are a
problem and you do not want to do the backporting work, then please
make them available so that other architectures that cannot use
Seamonkey at this time can attempt to do something with them.

Also as you knew Seamonkey was broken on at least one architecture
before  you did this, why didn't you attempt to let us know when
exactly you were doing this so we could have some working alternative in
place?

-- 
Jason Wever
Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead