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Re: RFBP Chromium



On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 05:25:42PM -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Sat, December 10, 2016 5:17 pm, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> 
> >> I'm not sure it's actually a bug.  There were some security changes in
> >> 53
> >> that caused a lot of people problems (not sure why they're not more
> 
> > If it causes problems to people, then it's a bug :)
> 
> Then again, if it works as intended, is it?  There was discussion on which

Yes, because that way causes problems.

> way it should fail, and they finally decided on changing it to permissive.
> 
> Discussion on the chromium bug report indicates it's not fixed until a
> later build of 55.  They also say that 53 has other security issues and
> should not be used.  (See earlier link.)

In any case, I think the debian BTS is best as a first step. In general,
backports are not for fixing bugs in old versions.


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