Hi, On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 6:57 AM Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi Andres, > > On 05-12-2021 03:36, Andres Salomon wrote: > > So what's happening with chromium in both sid and stable? I saw on > > d-release that it was removed from testing (#998676 and #998732), with a > > discussion about ending security support for it in stable. I'm willing > > to help out with chromium packaging if the problem is simply lack of > > time (or I could just as easily help with something like > > ungoogled-chromium, #939406, if the plan is to have that in debian > > instead). Either way, both as a user and a developer, it is really not > > great to have chromium in limbo. :( > > The problem really is lack of maintenance. In my opinion, chromium > deserves an active *team* to support it in Debian. What we have seen > over the past years, are just (more or less) incidental uploads. Not > enough for stable (we shipped it in bullseye because we had the > impression support was picked up again, but alas). We'll not ship it in > bookworm unless we see steady uploads in unstable and we see security > uploads in stable. The security team doesn't have the bandwidth to do it > themselves, they need a team to help them. > > Paul
Chromium is a browser that would take some work and I see that DDs are not interested in working on it (nor are those currently defined as maintainers and co maintainers). :( But, I agree with Paul. -- Cheers, Leandro Cunha
