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  Security support for chromium in jessie Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> - 2017-07-31 05:30 +0200
    Re: Security support for chromium in jessie Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 19:20 +0200
      Re: Security support for chromium in jessie Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> - 2017-11-05 04:20 +0100

#5255 — Security support for chromium in jessie

Hi all,

I do not have enough free time to be able to keep up with security
updates to chromium in jessie (oldstable) any more.  It is technically
feasible to keep it working in a jessie environment, but each update
has been more and more work.  I expect that to continue.

Anyway, if anyone would like to take this on (perhaps the LTS team?)
please do so.  You would need to either be a DD or have a regular
sponsor for it to be practical.  If that doesn't happen within about a
month, I'll announce that security support for chromium in jessie has
been discontinued.

Best wishes,
Mike

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#5264

On 31/07/17 05:23, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I do not have enough free time to be able to keep up with security
> updates to chromium in jessie (oldstable) any more.  It is technically
> feasible to keep it working in a jessie environment, but each update
> has been more and more work.  I expect that to continue.
> 
> Anyway, if anyone would like to take this on (perhaps the LTS team?)
> please do so.  You would need to either be a DD or have a regular
> sponsor for it to be practical.  If that doesn't happen within about a
> month, I'll announce that security support for chromium in jessie has
> been discontinued.

I think we should do this for as long as it's reasonably possible, given firefox
updates will get harder and harder (they will require newer versions of rustc,
which may need to be bootstrapped) so having another supported browser is a good
idea. So I may looking at this.

Cheers,
Emilio

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#5313

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> I think we should do this for as long as it's reasonably possible, given firefox
> updates will get harder and harder (they will require newer versions of rustc,
> which may need to be bootstrapped) so having another supported browser is a good
> idea. So I may looking at this.

It's been a few months now without progress, so the next chromium DSA
will announce that support for jessie is discontinued.

Best wishes,
Mike

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