[Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Mon Mar 26 21:29:55 CEST 2012


Le lundi 26 mars 2012 19:46:56, Florian Hubold a écrit :
> 
> If nobody responds, i'll push my current work as security update for Mageia
> 1, and drop iceape from cauldron so that we won't have an outdated package
> and a potential security risk for Mageia 2.
> 

The problem with dropping a package that was present in Mageia 1, in my 
opinion, is that it's too late to do so. By shipping it we implicitly promised 
to maintain it. Of course with that kind of logic we would never drop any 
package, but I just wanted to point out that dropping a package is not that an 
easy solution : when dropping something, there should be a note somewhere (in 
the errata?), there should be a warning before upgrade (ideally "the following 
packages found on your system are no longer supported in Mageia 2 and will not 
get security updates. Do you want to continue?").

I'm not volunteering to maintain it, so I won't strongly oppose dropping it, 
but if possible I'd like we actively looked for a maintainer first rather and 
drop it only as a last solution.

Best regards

Samuel Verschelde


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