Bug 1174300

Summary:	SeaMonkey: update to 2.53.3
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	Mr Maintenance <maintenance>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	maintenance, mrmazda, wolfgang
Version:	Leap 15.2	Flags:	psychonaut: needinfo? (wolfgang)
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Description Tristan Miller 2020-07-20 09:35:05 UTC

Please update the SeaMonkey packages in Leap 15.1 and Leap 15.2 to the SeaMonkey 2.53.3 package provided by the mozilla/seamonkey package on OBS: <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla/seamonkey>

Leap 15.1 and 15.2 currently package SeaMonkey 2.49.4, which is a very old release (from 4 August 2018) lacking many important security updates.  The latest version, 2.53.3, was released on 7 July 2020. Per the release notes at <https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.3/> it includes all the same security fixes as Firefox 60.4, on which it is based, plus backports of all "important" security fixes up to the current Firefox 77.

Comment 1 Felix Miata 2020-07-24 10:16:56 UTC

FWIW, releases subsequent to 2.49.x include functionality regressions caused by functionality purging upstream in Firefox which upstream SM developers plan or hope to fix as time permits its skeletal crew to find time for.

Comment 2 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2020-07-24 10:20:08 UTC

Thanks for the feedback. I think the fixed security issues are more important though while I understand that it might be annoying to some users. The good thing is that older versions of packages are always still available for those users who really need it.

Comment 3 Tristan Miller 2020-08-28 13:45:08 UTC

For the last 40 days the two requests on OBS have been producing nothing but highly repetitive messages from Leap Reviewbot (up to five per day).  Is this normal or are the requests stuck in an infinite loop of some sort?  Is some human actually going to process the requests at some point or have I made some sort of mistake in the submission process?

Comment 4 Tristan Miller 2020-11-12 08:10:17 UTC

SeaMonkey 2.53.3 has now appeared in the Leap 15.1 and 15.2 official update repositories, so I assume it's safe to mark this bug as resolved.

Wolfgang, I note that SeaMonkey has been removed from the main Tumbleweed repositories, and is instead only available in the "mozilla" repository, which is marked on software.opensuse.org as "Experimental".  Can we go through a similar process to get SeaMonkey back in Tumbleweed's main distribution?