[arch-general] SeaMonkey outdated. Critical security holes in the current version!

[Paul Marwick]

Manuel Reimer wrote:
> Hello Archlinux team,
>
> the SeaMonkey package is outdated. Many critical issues have been 
> fixed in the current version:
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html
>
> So in my opinion a fixed package is required as soon as possible.
>
> As SeaMonkey contains a browser component and there may be people who 
> use this to surf the internet, in my opinion new versions should be 
> packaged with the same priority as Firefox packages. The only 
> alternative would be to drop the package at all.

If you're concerned, you could do what I do - download the build 
information from the ABS and build it yourself. A bit of minor editing 
of the PKGBUILD is required, and the build takes a while (around and 
hour twenty minutes on my Core"Duo laptop), but that is it...

Paul.