On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:09:04AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > > Debian Weekly News warned a while back that it would get the hook, as a) > > it is non-free, b) it is buggy and not getting noticeably better as > > Netscape is looking to retire it in favour of Netscape 7, and c) it > > wasn't even being kept up with the latest releases of that codebase from > > Netscape. > > Yes, and with all of that said, some of us still prefer to use it for > various reasons. Mozilla is not a 100% replacement as of yet as it runs > too slowly on older systems, and in addition, the Mozilla mail/news just > isn't as good yet. > > I know there are other alternatives to look at, as well as other ways to > install Communicator. My point is simply that removing the Communicator > packages, as justified as it may seem to many, is still something of a > disservice to a portion of the Debian community.
Leaving it there with known security holes was worse ... If you want it back, there is really only one option: find a developer willing to maintain it properly. That's absolutely all it comes down to. It wasn't removed because it was politically incorrect, or because somebody had told us that Mozilla was a 100% replacement, or anything like that. It was removed because it had four open release-critical bugs, three of which were security holes, and all of which had been open for more than six months. ========================================================================= [Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 06:29:07 -0500] [ftpmaster: Anthony Towns] Removed the following packages from unstable: communicator | 1:4.77-2 | i386 navigator | 1:4.77-2 | i386 netscape | 1:4.77-2 | i386 netscape-base-4 | 1:4.77-2 | i386 netscape-base-4-libc5 | 1:4.77-2 | i386 netscape4.base | 1:4.77-2 | source ------------------- Reason ------------------- purged by RM; see bugs 145402 ---------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= ========================================================================= [Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 06:30:58 -0500] [ftpmaster: Anthony Towns] Removed the following packages from unstable: communicator-base-477 | 4.77-2 | i386 communicator-nethelp-477 | 4.77-2 | all communicator-smotif-477 | 4.77-2 | i386 communicator-spellchk-477 | 4.77-2 | all navigator-base-477 | 4.77-2 | i386 navigator-nethelp-477 | 4.77-2 | all navigator-smotif-477 | 4.77-2 | i386 netscape-base-477 | 4.77-2 | i386 netscape-ja-resource-477 | 4.77-2 | all netscape-java-477 | 4.77-2 | all netscape-ko-resource-477 | 4.77-2 | all netscape-smotif-477 | 4.77-2 | i386 netscape4.77 | 4.77-2 | source ------------------- Reason ------------------- purged by RM; see bugs 145398 145399 113615 ---------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]