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Date:      Sat, 28 Mar 2020 02:15:58 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Mikhail T." <mi+t@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        gecko@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Restoring seamonkey
Message-ID:  <wo75-5lf5-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <857ef528-1dfd-12b6-6579-b03a137ff199@aldan.algebra.com> (Mikhail T.'s message of "Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:28:43 -0400")
References:  <857ef528-1dfd-12b6-6579-b03a137ff199@aldan.algebra.com>

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"Mikhail T." <mi+t@aldan.algebra.com> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I'm dressing up a fairly low-powered machine, and having both browser
> and e-mail client in one process would be useful.
>
> The port-deleting commit cited poor update frequency, but the upstream
> <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>; is now at version 2.53.1 -- which 
> means, they've made several releases in last July, when the port was
> removed.
>
> Maybe, it can be brought back? Thanks! Yours,

Good luck:
- 2.53.1 is still vulnerable
- Upstream has unstable release cadence
- ESR60 engine may not build with new dependencies
- Expecting someone else to do the work

I'm only opposed on using Mk/bsd.gecko.mk and having gecko@ as the maintainer.



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