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Re: Bug#1032806: RFS: privacybrowser/0.1-1 [ITP] -- web browser that respects your privacy



I’m not sure I understand what point you are trying to make.

On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:35:07 PM MST Mezgani Ali wrote:
> Look Storen,
> 
> Qt WebEgine used 15 years ago for developing a Safari from scratch.
> Debian/GNU Linux is more GTK side than Qt.
> 
> 
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> 
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> > On 15/03/2023, at 19:52, Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Paul,
> > 
> > The point is that these security updates are added upstream, they are
> > regularly packaged in Debian, and it wouldn’t be any harder to support
> > them in Debian stable than security updates for any other browser.  Your
> > original email indicated that none of these three things were true.
> > 
> > Beyond that, you might find the following an interesting read (fairly
> > long, but the point is that, as per the Chromium maintainer, Qt WebEngine
> > has better coverage in Debian stable than Chromium does):
> > 
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020387#255
> > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020387#255> Privacy
> > Browser is not going to ship in Bookworm, but it will ship in Bookworm+1.
> >  Part of the reason why I have become one of the Qt maintainers is so
> > that it receives proper security support in stable (and oldstable as much
> > as possible, although there probably isn’t any web browser that currently
> > has good security coverage in oldstable).
> > 
> > Soren
> > 
> > On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 11:34:58 AM MST Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 06:41:55PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > 
> > > Please note that this request is for a not-yet-released Debian version.
> > > 
> > > I am not sure the Release team will agree to have such updates in
> > > stable.
> > > Although, I would be happy to discuss this with them.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Dmitry Shachnev
> > 
> > --
> > Soren Stoutner
> > soren@stoutner.com


-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@stoutner.com

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