On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Darius Jahandarie wrote: >> Security support for the chromium web browser is now discontinued >> for the stable distribution (wheezy). Chromium upstream stopped >> supporting wheezy's build environment (gcc 4.7, make, etc.), so >> there is no longer any practical way to continue building security >> updates. > > How unfortunate. > > Was this due to the chromium team not being aware of this consequence?
No, it was a conscious decision (they considered Debian specifically): http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2014/08/can-your-distro-compile-chromium.html > What can we do to make it easier and more compelling for upstreams to > continue supporting popular build environments needed for keeping the > internet safe? Another option is to update build environments to support all of the features upstreams want to use, but that doesn't fit well with Debian's long-term stable model. I spent time looking into that, but with jessie releasing soon (with a sufficient build environment), I didn't have the motivation or time to do that. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CANTw=mmm2pogyvzuxzdycgvh54rqhc-klr-trruw0+oon1w...@mail.gmail.com
