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Date:      Wed, 04 May 2016 09:07:46 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@vfemail.net>
To:        Louis Epstein <le@main.put.com>
Cc:        gecko@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New Seamonkey Trouble?
Message-ID:  <pot2-5mil-wny@vfemail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160426002058.I53676-100000@main.put.com> (Louis Epstein's message of "Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:21:47 -0400 (EDT)")
References:  <k2kf-o0g8-wny@vfemail.net> <20160426002058.I53676-100000@main.put.com>

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Louis Epstein <le@main.put.com> writes:

> On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, Jan Beich wrote:
>
>> Louis Epstein <le@main.put.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Jan Beich wrote:
>> >
>> >> Louis Epstein <le@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.
>>
>> If you still want 2.40 submit patches provided seamonkey-i18n,
>> linux-seamonkey and Mk/Uses/gecko.mk are kept in sync.
>
> I see a new patch arrived today,but won't install via portmaster -r.
> How is it applied?

Define DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES during build. I don't use portmaster or
seamonkey, so ask generic questions on ports@ maillist.

> Is 2.41 expected any time soon?

Ask upstream i.e., SeaMonkey Project contributors. gecko@ only maintains
the FreeBSD port.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey#Status
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/about

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