Package: lomiri-desktop-session
Version: 0.3-11
Severity: important
Tags: security
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]

lomiri-desktop-session has Recommends: morph-browser and no other
direct dependency on a web browser. I recommend removing that
dependency. Lomiri's metapackage (see https://bugs.debian.org/1131475
) could instead Recommend something like gnome-core does:

Recommends: firefox-esr (>= 140) | firefox (>= 140) | chromium |
gnome-www-browser

gnome-core also has epiphany-browser as an alternative but I assume
that doesn't make much sense for Lomiri.

morph-browser's web engine is qtwebengine-opensource-src (or
qt6-webengine). This has been declared unsuppored by Debian Security
since at least 2019. https://bugs.debian.org/926179

Web browsers with adequate security support in Debian include
firefox-esr and chromium. webkit2gtk is also maintained so browsers
that use it like epiphany-browser are probably ok too.

Currently, task-lomiri-desktop already does pull in firefox-esr (in
addition to morph-browser). I haven't investigated to figure out what
exactly pulls in firefox-esr, but I don't consider it to be a problem
because I think we should be installing it anyway.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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