New Seamonkey Trouble?

[Louis Epstein]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, Jan Beich wrote:

> Louis Epstein <le at main.put.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Jan Beich wrote:
> >
> >> Louis Epstein <le at main.put.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > We are once again seeing a new revision of the Seamonkey port
> >> > (2.39_3)
> >> > refuse to install via Portmaster because of known vulnerabilities
> >> > (which presumably affect the older version as well).
> >> >
> >> > I suppose I'll have to wait for pkg to catch up to run the
> >> > update?
> >>
> >> SeaMonkey release process lags behind Firefox. It's unrelated to gecko@
> >> being undermaintained. 2.40 simply has no usable distfile yet.
> >
> > But now??
> >
> > The SeaMonkey homepage detects my 2.39 and tells me to get 2.40.
>
> 2.40 uses the same browser engine as firefox 43.0 which is vulnerable.
> As mail/thunderbird and www/firefox-esr are going to switch to 45.1esr
> in a few weeks converting www/seamonkey to use mail/thunderbird distfile
> would be more desirable. Upstream appears to be drowning in its own
> infra issues.

Hmmm...I note that today I am NOT getting the "you are using a
vulnerable old version" message from the SeaMonkey homepage.
Is 2.41 expected any time soon?

> If you still want 2.40 submit patches provided seamonkey-i18n,
> linux-seamonkey and Mk/Uses/gecko.mk are kept in sync.
>

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