Re: Chromium in Sid
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:39:33AM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier uttered:
> On 05/21/2010 11:23 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote:
> >Good morning folks.
> >
> >Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? Chromium has been on the
> >6.x branch for a couple of weeks now and Debian is still using the 5.x
> >branch.
> >
> >In my opinion we should keep up with the new releases at least weekly.
> >Is this on the agenda to do?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Steve
> >Toronto
> >
> >
> This just made it into sid _very_ recently. I was not aware that
> software released a couple weeks ago was "really old". I run IW 3.0.6
> in Lenny. It is much more than a couple weeks old but does just fine
> and providing needed functionality.
Yes it was in experimental briefly.
It's (6.x branch) considerably faster on this netbook. Sid changes daily as does
Chromium. I don't expect daily updates but it should be updated at
least weekly!
> There is a Ubutnu PPA that does weekly builds of chromium. I have not
> tried it personally but am told that those .debs work fine on sid.
> You might give that a try if you really would like to stay on the
> bleeding-edge.
I'm familiar with this as I've used it before Debian decided to get in
the game; which is good since Iceweasel is a POS.
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> Jordan Metzmeier
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