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>> For the first time in 3 years I am installing firefox from the moz site |
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>> and uninstalling the ebuild - I recommand everyone do that ASAP until the |
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>> gentoo devel wake up and realize how serious this is and fix the ebuild. |
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> You know, you are more than welcome to contribute an ebuild for the new |
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> firefox rather than bitching that we're too slow. As for why we're so slow |
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> (as you put it...didn't the new version just come out yesterday?), the |
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> primary maintainer for all of the Mozilla stuff (firefox, mozilla, seamonkey, |
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> thunderbird, etc.) quit about 2 weeks ago. We've been trying to find someone |
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> to step up and take permanent maintainership, but until then, the "backup |
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> maintainers" are busy people and will get to it when they have time. |
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I don't believe that I was 'bitching'. I was merely stating that this was |
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a serious issue and that it should be addressed as soon as possible. |
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I have complete empathy for the situation, however no distro (commercial |
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or community based) can simply use as an excuse that the person who is |
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responsible is gone/on vacation/insert reason for not being there. This |
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isn't a new feature request, this is a major vulnerability we are talking |
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about. |
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Not only will gentoo suffer because the users will be affected by this, |
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yet one of the major benefits of an open-source os such as gentoo/linux is |
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that responses to security holes are generally very quick (this is often a |
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comparison point between linux and windows). |
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- Rod |
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