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

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 1, and drop iceape from cauldron so that we won't have an outdated package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
+