Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]
Groups > linux.debian.user > #187405
| From | Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud@hypra.fr> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie |
| Date | 2017-09-29 12:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <uv0yL-4Sa-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <uuHFN-1y2-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <uuKDE-3l8-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <uuL6F-3wn-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Hypra |
Le 28/09/2017 à 19:39, Daniel Bareiro a écrit : > Hi, Sven. > > On 28/09/17 14:13, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>> In the last DSA for the chromium-browser package (DSA-3985-1) I noticed >>> that the updates were released for stable, testing and unstable but not >>> for oldstable. I think the same thing happened with the previous update. >>> >>> Maybe I'm missing something and Chromium on Jessie is no longer getting >>> security updates? > >> It seems that the maintainer is overworked and cannot provide Jessie >> updates for chromium anymore[1]. Somebody else said he might be looking >> at it[2], but that was six weeks ago and nothing happened so far. >> >> So while it is not clear when chromium in jessie will be EOL'ed, it >> seems advisable to switch to some other browser for now (if you want a >> package from Debian, firefox-esr is the only option). >> >> >> 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2017/07/msg00009.html >> 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2017/08/msg00010.html > > Thanks for the observation and the references. I was not aware of this. > > Here I am using both Firefox and Chromium since sometimes I need to test > some things in both browsers (for example some WebRTC application such > as Jitsi Meet). > > Thanks for your reply. You can also install Google Chrome from the Google Debian repository. It's up-to-date and it works for Jessie. Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread
Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-09-28 16:10 +0200
Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-09-28 19:20 +0200
Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-09-28 19:50 +0200
Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud@hypra.fr> - 2017-09-29 12:20 +0200
Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-10-03 22:20 +0200
csiph-web