That's fantastic news! Thanks,
Phill. On 6 November 2012 14:17, Micah Gersten <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/05/2012 07:21 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it is apparent that the SRU / Updates of Chromium have stalled. This > > does directly affect Lubuntu as we ship it as default. Julien (gilir) > > has given me some pointers as to how to get SRU updates done, but I see > > that at [1] it has a tech-board exception. You voiced concern at using > > alex's PPA. > > > > > > I had contacted Micah Gersten <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> some time ago about involving my PPA > > into Ubuntu release. He said that he is not comfortable about using > > non-ubuntu dev packages in Chromium repositories, but he could use > > my scripts. > > > > > > I had a quick chat with duty SRU person earlier and he suggested I > > contact you directly. > > > > Yes, I'm new to SRU, but am also the Lubuntu QA liason person and would > > really like to help out. Julien (gilir) stated: > > > > For stable releases, we should not use any PPA, it should be > directly in > > the repositories. > > In the past, stable releases was uploaded in all supported releases. > > Recently, nobody maintains chromium anymore in Ubuntu. So, I think it > > would be very useful if the stable releases can be packaged and > propose > > as a SRU [1]. I'm sure it will be easy to find someone to upload > them if > > it's well prepared. > > I can provide some guidance if it's necessary, and I think it's a > very > > good way to contribute to Ubuntu. > > Regards, > > Julien Lavergne > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates > > > > > > > > If you could spend a little time to let me know what needs doing for the > > updates to be accepted I'd be happy to take on the 'donkey work' of > > having these mix of security & feature fixes set up for approval. As > > with, e.g. firefox, is the fact that it works on current enough to ask > > that they be tested by the lubuntu-qa people and then get 'back ported' > > or is that a totally different thing? On this, I'm asking what would the > > correct method of resolving this bug [2]? I'm on Version 23.0.1271.1 > > Ubuntu 12.10 (157674) > > > > Regards, > > > > Phill. > > 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions > > 2. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/608538 > > > > -- > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > > > > There is someone now working on Chromium. As soon as we have new > packages, we can push an update to the stable releases. I'll forward > this on to him, and he can probably respond with more detail. > > Thanks, > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > >
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