On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 5:09 AM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: ftp.debian....@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: remove
> X-Debbugs-Cc: fire...@packages.debian.org, debian-m...@lists.debian.org
> Control: affects -1 + src:firefox
>
> firefox:mipsel still exists in the archive, but is severely outdated and
> likely to have a very large number of security vulnerabilities. Newer
> versions of firefox do not build successfully on mipsel. I think it would
> be better for this package to be missing from mipsel altogether (the same
> as firefox-esr), rather than existing but being old and dangerous.

That's probably a good choice.

> It's also one of the few packages still depending on the transitional
> libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 package, which should be removed in trixie (ideally
> it should have been removed already in bookworm, but that didn't happen).

Is there an upgrade path for users on mipsel? Do they have a graphical
web browser they can install, even if it is not Firefox or Chrome?

Jeff

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