Re: Chromium on Debian 11

[Leandro Cunha <leandrocunha016@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 6:46 AM phil995511 - <phil995511@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Chromium is on version 99 on Debian 11 Stable :
>
> bullseye (stable) (web): navigateur web
> 99.0.4844.74-1~deb11u1: amd64 arm64 armhf i386
> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&lang=fr&searchon=names&keywords=chromium
>
> 2 highlest security updates have been released since.
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> The Testing and Unstable branches each get one of these 2 updates (100.0.4896.88-1 & 100.0.4896.127-1), but not Stable (99.0.4844.74-1) !?!
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> Debian 11 Stable users are exposed to these major security flaws.
>
> They risk having important confidential information stolen, whether their computer systems are hacked remotely ;-(
>
> Your solution of pushing browser updates first through Unstable, then through Testing and finally pushing them to the Stable branch more than a 1/2 month later has the consequence that you leave your Debian Stable users become potential victims of hackers.
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> This way of doing things is wrong and needs to be changed urgently for the good of Debian Stable users !!!
>
> You must immediately publish all new updates to the Stable branch, immediately after they have been released !!!
>
> The current situation just makes you want to abandon Debian for a distribution with better monitoring of updates...
>
> Regards.

Andres Salomon, uploaded the latest released version to unstable pro
bullseye/stable-security.

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1318930/accepted-chromium-10004896127-1deb11u1-source-into-stable-security-embargoed-stable-security/
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium

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Cheers,
Leandro Cunha
Software Engineer and Debian Contributor

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