Re: Re: [security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:1658-1: important: Security update for MozillaFirefox

Wolfgang Rosenauer <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:10:39 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Am 01.10.2015 um 11:03 schrieb Michael Ströder:
> Rob Janssen wrote:
>>
>> Why are the updates for Firefox and Chromium tracked continuously, while
>> Seamonkey is
>> updated only very occasionally?   The version on openSUSE 13.1 is still 2.33.1
>> and Seamonkey
>> complains it is outdated.

Seamonkey is not able to keep up with the releases. Sometimes they skip
them, usually they are quite delayed after the related Firefox release.

> Good question. Especially since Seamonkey 2.38 was released a couple of days
> ago which is AFAIK based on the same components like Firefox 41. So if Firefox
> 41 is an important security update then Seamonkey 2.38 would also be an
> important security update.

I'll submit it soon. I just submitted Thunderbird 38.3 which also was
only available after quite some delay.


Wolfgang

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