On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote:
Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium (as in its features) are being updated within Debian 12
Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are frequent and massive. The upstream teams do not maintain stable versions with support period comparable to Debian stable. It would be too much burden for Debian maintainers to track and backport security fixes.
That is why latest Chromium release is available in bookworm. Firefox and Thunderbird packages follow ESR version, so 102 to 115 to 128 updates with point releases approximately every month.
In Ubuntu it was one of the reasons why they seized building .deb packages for browsers and switched to snap. Latest releases may rely on features unavailable in development tools from LTS distributions. A complete container independent of the system alleviates some issues.
I like that Debian developers and maintainers are still able to build .deb packages for browsers.
