On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:39:33AM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier uttered: > On 05/21/2010 11:23 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > >Good morning folks. > > > >Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? Chromium has been on the > >6.x branch for a couple of weeks now and Debian is still using the 5.x > >branch. > > > >In my opinion we should keep up with the new releases at least weekly. > >Is this on the agenda to do? > > > >Cheers, > > > >Steve > >Toronto > > > > > This just made it into sid _very_ recently. I was not aware that > software released a couple weeks ago was "really old". I run IW 3.0.6 > in Lenny. It is much more than a couple weeks old but does just fine > and providing needed functionality.
Yes it was in experimental briefly. It's (6.x branch) considerably faster on this netbook. Sid changes daily as does Chromium. I don't expect daily updates but it should be updated at least weekly! > There is a Ubutnu PPA that does weekly builds of chromium. I have not > tried it personally but am told that those .debs work fine on sid. > You might give that a try if you really would like to stay on the > bleeding-edge. I'm familiar with this as I've used it before Debian decided to get in the game; which is good since Iceweasel is a POS. > -- > Jordan Metzmeier > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bf6a935.5060...@gmail.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100521154628.gd5...@google.com
