Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (137 mails)

[pelibali <pelibali@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:19:55 +0200 (MEST)
Roman Drahtmueller <.> wrote:

<...>
> 
> With the release of the SUSE Linux 9.3 FTP edition this week, SUSE
> Security announces that the SUSE Linux 8.2 version of our home user
> product will be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant
> fixes for more than two years, vulnerabilities found in SUSE Linux
> 8.2 after July 14th 2005 will not be fixed any more for this
> product.

My personal opinion is, that please don't stop to support 8.2,
_before_ a mozilla update comes out! (Please note, that this
'early' version of SUSE does not have any FireBird / FireFox...)
It was a while ago the last youpdate happened for mozilla (January
2005) and I think closing the support now would just ignore the
importance of this particular package(s).

Yeah, I know, that the two years of official support are in fact
already gone weeks/months ago, but I'm confident, that skipping e.g.
this update for that (already) not-supported version of mozilla 1.4x
wouldn't solve your problem for example concerning SUSE 9.0.
Because that release having also this outdated mozilla variant AND
supported still for about a half year.
If you fix it once for 9.0, why not to do it for 8.2 as well?
Please, if you can do something for it, the fixed mozilla-related
packages would give a fair end for the long period you excellently
supported version 8.2.

Best regards,
  Balazs MELIKANT