Bugzilla removed from Debian
Andres G. Aragoneses
knocte at NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com
Thu Aug 25 14:02:54 UTC 2011
On 08/24/2011 02:01 PM, Frédéric Buclin wrote:
> Le 24. 08. 11 01:44, Emmanuel Seyman a écrit :
>> I've been pinged with the information that Debian is no longer shipping
>> Bugzilla in their testing and unstable suites.
>
> This is a good thing, for the reasons described in their bug. Most
> support questions we had on IRC were about users using their .deb
> package. In that case, it's much better if users simply download our
> official tarballs and run checksetup.pl themselves.
>
> Also, "Debian has been - rightfully - blamed by upstream in a posting at
> Planet Mozilla that Debian provides poor security support for Bugzilla"
> is a reference to one of my posts, where I publicly criticized their
> inability to release new .deb packages despite several security bugs
> have been fixed several months ago by the Bugzilla team.
>
> All other Linux distros are able to maintain Bugzilla with very few
> trouble. I don't know why Debian is unable to do the same. But their
> decision causes no trouble to me.
Can you tell me what distros ship Bugzilla as a package?
Thanks
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