Re: please add a chromium-source binary package
- To: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
- Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>, 893448@bugs.debian.org, Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>, debian-release@lists.debian.org, security@debian.org
- Subject: Re: please add a chromium-source binary package
- From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:41:25 +0200
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:33:11PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Ultimately this is up for Michael to decide, as he's dealing with Chromium
> updates single-handedly.
Agreed.
> Personally I have no reservations against this entering unstable, but this doesn't sound
> like something that should enter a stable release. If the Chrome development team with
> it's hundreds of full time developers can't/wont commit to a stable interface for these
> kinds of extensions, why should we kludge around this with our sparse resources?
I guess the answer is because software wants it. :-)
CEF exists precisely to be an API-stable interface for this; it's unfortunate
that Chrome doesn't care enough, but CEF is meant to be that layer, and seems
to be doing pretty well (judging by the amount of software that uses it).
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