Re: Iceweasel and chromium stable and secure versions
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2013-03-06 04:39 +0100, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> On 2013-02-28 18:18 +0100, Henry Jensen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I noticed that chromium got updated to the newest stable and secure
>>>> version 25.0.1364.97. Can we expect that Chromium will receive further
>>>> updates in the future during the lifetime of Debian 7.0, perhaps as
>>>> part of the Update-Repository (formerly known as volatile)?
>>>
>>> It is planned to regularly push new upstream versions of Chromium into
>>> Debian 7.0, AFAIK as security updates.
>>>
>>>> And what about Iceweasel. Upstream Firefox 10.x is EOL now.
>>>
>>> Iceweasel will get security support, but no new major versions. If you
>>> want those, look on http://mozilla.debian.net/.
>>
>>
>> That's a nice compromise. I remember Chromium getting mighty old in
>> the Lenny days.
>
> Oh, you misremember. ;-) Chromium was never included in Lenny, it only
> hit Debian in 2010. The "mighty old" version is in Squeeze, it has been
> abandoned for ~1.5 years (last security update is from September 2011).
>
My mistake. I must have switched to Google Chrome when Chromium got so darn old.
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