firefox.i386 in x86_64 repo

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hi,

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:18, Joachim Frieben wrote:
>> Well, not quite:
>>
>>    "/usr/lib[64]/gcj-4.1.1/libgcjwebplugin.so"
>>
>> ist still around. What actually has been removed is the (empty) dummy
>> package "java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-plugin" which created a symbolic link to
>> "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins". You are still free to create the symlink by
>> hand or an equivalent one to "$HOME/.mozilla/plugins" ..
> 
> This so file is supposed to be removed as well.  We don't have the capacity to 
> keep up with the security fixes needed (so I'm told)

No, that's not the issue.  The issue is that we're actively developing GNU 
Classpath's security infrastructure, but we're not ready to declare it secure yet.

> so we can't just leave 
> the .so file there, we have to not package it at all.

I would like to leave the .so file so that adventurous users can install the 
symlink by hand.

Tom