Adrian, On Wednesday, December 13, 2023 6:17:38 PM MST Adrian Bunk wrote: > What's the benefit of using upstream-supported LTS releases? > Debian stable would would anyway not follow upstream point releases > with rare exceptions like browser engines. Qt WebEngine is a browser engine. It is a highly modified rolling fork of Chromium. It is packaged as part of Qt, which is the basis of KDE. Qt WebEngine is used as the browser engine for the following browsers in Debian: Konqueror, Falkon, Angelfish, Morph Browser, qutebrowser, Privacy Browser. It is also use to render HTML content in KMail and Akregator. It is used by Marble, Quassel, ghostwriter, and a host of other programs that need to display HTML content. Currently there is no real security support for Qt WebEngine in stable, which is an oversight that might surprise many Debian users. The purpose of this discussion is to figure out the best way to change that. Shipping LTS versions of Qt in stable would put us in a better position than the status quo, even if it doesn’t get us all the way there. And based on what Patrick said, it sounds like shipping LTS versions of KDE Plasma would make it easier to ship LTS versions of Qt. -- Soren Stoutner soren@stoutner.com
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