Paul,
I am one of the Debian Qt WebEngine maintainers, and I also submit code to the upstream Qt project.
The Salsa link you included appears to be a bit misinformed about security support for Qt WebEngine in Debian. For more accurate information, I would point you to this link:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032794
Bug fixes for Qt WebEngine are backported every couple of months by upstream Qt:
https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.13-released
There are a number of other browsers based on Qt WebEngine currently in Debian. A non-exhaustive list includes the following:
Konqueror
Falkon
qutebrowser
Angelfish
If you are interested in more information about the subject, I have a section of Privacy Browser’s handbook dedicated to the subject which is included in the index.docbook in the .deb.
Soren
On Tuesday, March 14, 2023 6:19:44 PM MST you wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-03-11 at 14:41 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > * URL : https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-pc/
> > privacybrowser - web browser that respects your privacy
>
> I note that this browser depends on Qt WebEngine, all the Qt based web
> engines are not security supported in Debian. I encourage you to switch
> to a browser engine that is security supported, or discuss with the
> Debian and upstream Qt web engine maintainers to add such support.
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-security-support/-/blob/master/securi
> ty-support-limited
> * qtwebengine-opensource-src: No security support upstream and
> backports not feasible, only for use on trusted content
> * qtwebkit: No security support upstream and backports not feasible,
> only for use on trusted content
> * qtwebkit-opensource-src: No security support upstream and backports
> not feasible, only for use on trusted content
> * kde4libs: khtml has no security support upstream, only for use on
> trusted content
> * khtml: khtml has no security support upstream, only for use on
> trusted content, see #1004293
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Soren Stoutner
soren@stoutner.com
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