Bug#1040827: RM: firefox [mipsel] -- RoQA; severely outdated, depends on transitional libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0

Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:04:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID <ZK0bIFrta3TfPw1s__41563.6585139268$1689066575$gmane$org@tautology.pseudorandom.co.uk>
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
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firefox:mipsel still exists in the archive, but is severely outdated and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.

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).

Thanks,
    smcv