On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:55:40 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-08 16:10 +0200, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:48:49 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> I've been following the chromium-browser saga a bit, who has ended up > >> with the removal of the package from testing [1,2]. While I'm a > >> chromium-browser user myself, and hence I'm saddened of seeing it go, > >> I'm not here to question the choice as I'm sure it's been made as the > >> right one and that it hasn't been an easy one to make. > >> > >> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/09/msg00582.html > >> [2] > >> http://www.iuculano.it/en/linux/debian/chromium-browser-removed-from-testing/ > >> > >> Still I think we need, as Debian, to communicate about that choice. As > >> you can imagine, I particularly care about that as sooner or later > >> someone will ask me « why Debian doesn't ship Chromium? », and I'd like > >> to know the right answer to that question, so that I can provide it, > >> rather than offering my personal view only :-) > >> That's all I care about. [3] > > > > I think that this need is justification to declare backports "officially > > supported by the debian project". Thus when asked this question, you > > can point to the fact that chromium is indeed supported on stable, just > > via a different model than folks are used to. That is of course > > assuming someone is willing to support the backport. > > It also means that users need to be taught how to change the apt pinning > priority for backports, because in the default configuration backported > packages are never updated automatically. Which is very bad from a > security point of view.
So, I think the solution for that is relatively straightforward. I think that an important part of making backports official would be adding an option to the installer that automatically sets up backports in the sources.list with a reasonable priority (similar to what is done for volatile and security now). Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100908110210.930e8bc9.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com
