Hi, Alex. On 29/09/17 07:19, Alex ARNAUD wrote: >>>> In the last DSA for the chromium-browser package (DSA-3985-1) I noticed >>>> that the updates were released for stable, testing and unstable but not >>>> for oldstable. I think the same thing happened with the previous >>>> update. >>>> >>>> Maybe I'm missing something and Chromium on Jessie is no longer getting >>>> security updates? >>> It seems that the maintainer is overworked and cannot provide Jessie >>> updates for chromium anymore[1]. Somebody else said he might be looking >>> at it[2], but that was six weeks ago and nothing happened so far. >>> >>> So while it is not clear when chromium in jessie will be EOL'ed, it >>> seems advisable to switch to some other browser for now (if you want a >>> package from Debian, firefox-esr is the only option). >>> >>> >>> 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2017/07/msg00009.html >>> 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2017/08/msg00010.html >> Thanks for the observation and the references. I was not aware of this. >> >> Here I am using both Firefox and Chromium since sometimes I need to test >> some things in both browsers (for example some WebRTC application such >> as Jitsi Meet). > You can also install Google Chrome from the Google Debian repository. > It's up-to-date and it works for Jessie. Thanks for the suggestion. I did not know they had a repository published. The times I installed Chrome were downloading the Debian package. But maybe this automatically adds an entry in /etc/apt/source.list.d. Kind regards, Daniel
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