Thanks, Adam. That helped. What I'm unclear on: why is this applicable to the gnome-core package in particular, as Xfce is the default desktop environment for Debian now. Is the security policy such that no metapackage should depend on a WebKit-based browser?
Paul On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 08:17 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 12.10.2012 03:24, Paul C. Bryan wrote: > > I found a bug[1] in gnome-core that seemed related to this issue, and > > seconded the call for removing the iceweasel dependency. The response > > was that security was the driver for this, and that I should report > > iceweasel's lack of GNOME support as a bug. > > > > 1. Is there any background or conversation the RT had that I can look > > at > > to better understand their decision? I can't seem to source anything > > relevant. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682481 is the > meta-gnome3 bug, which has contributions from the security team. The > release-notes discussion in > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683428 is also > relevant. > > Regards, > > Adam > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
