On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:12:56AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > Is there a specific reason why you (Chromium team) uploaded
> > > chromium-browser in Ubuntu two months ago and not yet in Debian?
> > I don't received any answer, so I'm going to take over this ITP in order
> > to get chromium-browser in time for squeeze.
Hi Giuseppe, many thanks for your offer, personally I'd like you to go
ahead with your packaging work on chromium-browser to at least have the
*possibility* of getting the package in squeeze. That means having it in
unstable first, then we'll use the usual rules for transition to testing
of all other packages.
> > I requested an alioth group, feel free to join it when it will be
> > accepted.
> The problem is that chromium browser cannot be maintained in a debian
> stable relase as it is. If you think different talk to me on IRC.
It's a bit of a pity that this argument of yours was not in the bug log
of the ITPs of chromium, or else I've missed it blatantly (in that case
I apologize in advance). The only counter argument I've found thus far
to upload was a licensing problem, which seems to be solved now.
Regarding security issues, I duly notice that Giuseppe is a full member
of the Debian security team, so I believe we should trust his judgement
on that.
All in all, it would be an incredible pity not to have chromium-browser
in Debian and probably a good argument for a lot of desktop users to use
another Debian-based distribution (say, Ubuntu). I don't think we should
block the packaging of chromium lightly; if there are clear reasons to
do so they should be clearly stated, and well communicated.
No matter what, we've clear processes for this kind of issues and I
think we should use them rather then simply not uploading the package
and stopping other developers motivated in doing that, by fiddling with
the owner of this ITP.
If you ask me, I'd like Giuseppe to take back ownership of this bug
report and go ahead with the packaging work.
Cheers.
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