On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 5:51 PM Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > there is one thing to be mentioned because that's frequently > misunderstood by upstream authors who just want their program in Debian. > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 04:55:15PM +0200, Andreas Røsdal wrote: > >I am pretty sure I can handle doing the Debian packaging. I expect there to > >be frequent releases. > > Please do only package your program for Debian when yoU're willing to do > at least security support for the one upstream version that happens to > be in Debian testing when we freeze, until the point when security > support for the following stable release ends. Expect this to be over a > period of at least three years. > > You cannot fix a security issue in Debian stable by just uploading the > new version of your program, you need to built a patch that only fixes > the security issue while keeping everything else in the package at the > state it was in at the release of the respective Debian stable.
Given the complex, fast-moving nature of the web, and the fact that this particular browser appears to be written with a heavy dose of AI assistance, I highly doubt this is practical for upstream. I'd expect that there would need to be some kind of exception along the lines of those used for Firefox ESR and Chromium, and unless there is a compelling feature this browser has over Firefox and Chromium, I'm not sure that kind of an exception would make sense. More likely I would expect the app to only be present in Unstable like VirtualBox, and at that point it's probably easier for both Debian and upstream if the browser is not added to Debian's repos. There are lots of other, easier ways to distribute apps for Debian (AppImage, Flatpak, third-party deb, Snap, tarball full of binaries, etc.). -- Aaron > Greetings > Marc > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header > Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 > Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 >
