Hi, On Thu, 12 May 2016, Guido Günther wrote: > I have maintained icedove a while ago and know the codebase a bit. I'm > also sure we might get support from the current maintainers as long as > we're able to build the ESR releases for wheezy - which is Debian's > standard way to deal with Firefox/Thundergbird security updates. I can > look into building icedove 31.8 for wheezy. I could also check if we can > build 45.x which would keep us covered for at least another year: > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ > > So should we try to support ice{dove,weasel} at least for th3 45.x series?
+1 from my side, even though we don't have any explicit support request from companies, it would really useful for end users and desktop deployments. > > qemu and qemu-kvm were triaged as unsupported for CVE-2016-3712, but I > > think Guido is studying how to support virtualisation related packages, > > and maybe we should wait for his evaluation. > > I had zero feedback on supporting qemu so I'd propose to drop it. We can > keep libvirt in the current version if we don't update qemu and it seems > to be in use in Wheezy quiet a bit (and dropping it would kill of quiet > some programs due to the dependency chain) so I'd propose to keep it. I would like us to look for other ways to support qemu before deciding to drop it, cf my other mail, maybe we should look for external support as well. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
