On Saturday, 18-01-2025 at 12:30 Max Nikulin wrote:
> 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.
>
+1 (yes, impressive, and my thanks to them)
>
