On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:25:28AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > When I choose "About Chromium" menu item it says: > > > > Version 35.0.1916.114 Built on Debian 7.1, running on Debian 7.5 (270117) > > > > Is that true that package for AMD64 is built on Debian 7.1? > > If yes, is using of this package secure? > > Yes, that is correct. The reason you're seeing that is that the amd64 > package was built on one of the wheezy security build daemon chroots, > which apparently has not been updated in a while. > > It's not really a problem since only library headers are used at build > time, and those don't change over the lifetime of the stable release. > As long as the system libraries chromium links against on your machine > are up to date, there is no issue at all. > > It could be nice if the stable buildds were kept more up to date. > I've CC'd [email protected] to get their opinion on that.
I've just updated the chroots. But there is reason to be concerned that it was build against when there were some older packages installed. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
