On Thursday 08 September 2016 19:02:31 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > > update into the wheezy repo's? > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > > Please contact the Debian LTS people, and if this fix is not already > in the priority queue, you could offer to sponsor the work required or > something. > > > I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just opened. > > Gene, may I humbly suggest you should get a new box for non-Linux-CNC > work, and keep that wheezy box you use for Linux-CNC off the grid so > that it doesn't become a liability in the future?
Liability? Only if its destroyed on purpose by a malicious update. I have a router with dd-wrt reflashed into it. No back doors. And it stops _all_ the unfunny stuff. And according to the error message I get when I run firefox-esr from a terminal, SSL is missing. But its not, FF just can't find it. IMO firefox-esr is a disaster despite the hype. > You will be happier in the medium/long term after the investment in > the new box pays itself off, Debian jessie should work much better > overall for you for desktopish things (i.e. not Linux-CNC), and the > rest of us will be happier even sooner because we will have less > support requests related to oldstable to attend to[1] ;-) > > Paypal works just fine with firefox in a standard Debian 8.6 install. > > [1] Any work done for stable and unstable/testing _usually_ helps a > lot more people than work done for oldstable. I can appreciate that, but wheezy is supposed to have security support until sometime in 2018, but this gradual destruction of a formerly working system just to get folks to update smells an awful lot like fedora, and that rebuild your system every 30 days got old, very fast, so I bailed to mandrake all those years ago. And now its happening again. All I want is a system that Just Works(TM) and now it isn't. Sometime today I'll see if I can figure out how to install the real mozilla firefox 48.something tarball. Maybe even make it use the new flashplayer.so, now at major version 23 something. I already have them downloaded. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
