Re: Mitigating the problem of limited security support

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> schrieb:
> understanding is that the Debian Security team has absolutely refused
> to extend the "browser exception" (to allow major new versions) to
> webkit2gtk,

The "browser exception" applies to Chromium and Firefox, which are
standalone packages (sans a few addons breaking), but unless webkit
provides a long term branch with API stability guarantees, that's
not a workable. "Rebase to a new 2.x branch every six months and let's
hope that it doesn't break any rdeps" is not a workable solution.

Cheers,
        Moritz