Security updates for mozilla based software [Was: Security updates]

Alexander Sack asac at debian.org
Mon Dec 25 18:39:53 UTC 2006


On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 01:43:40PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Oops, I decided to follow-up to debian-release after setting the subject
> and forgot to change it. So, here is a proper subject.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 01:40:37PM +0100, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I see Alex has uploaded version 1.5.0.9 of icedove. What should we take
> > as a course of action for xulrunner, iceweasel and iceape ?
> > Should we go with newer upstreams (note there's no official xulrunner
> > release, but I fake them taking from tags in upstream cvs) or backport
> > security fixes ?
> > 

Please lets upload new upstream versions as long as possible - e.g. as
long as etch is not released. Those are just minor upstream version
shifts, so taking them entirely should be pretty safe imo.

 - Alexander

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