Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-10-02 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 09/08/2010 07:08 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:22:29PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: from now, and as far as I know neither the security team nor the stable release managers usually accept that kind of changes in stable. If they say they'll be happy to accept

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-15 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
On 09/15/2010 08:23 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: I think it's easy to see if we will have to accept a new major release of Chromium in Squeeze (after its release): Would you be able to backport any fix from 6.x to 3.x? If they keep releasing every 3 months, you'll have to deal with a more distant

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-14 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 09/08/2010 07:08 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:22:29PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: from now, and as far as I know neither the security team nor the stable release managers usually accept that kind of changes in stable. If they say they'll be happy to accept

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-14 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
On 09/14/2010 05:56 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Besides, Giuseppe said that Chromium 5.x wasn't an option for Squeeze and uploaded Chromium 6.x. Why this won't happen again during the freeze? or worst, during Squeeze's lifetime? As I wrote many times, no one can say if this will happen again.

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:08:29PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: The plan for Chromium is to update it with the Chromium stable releases, i.e. the same way Xulrunner has been updated during the supported life time of xulrunner 1.9.0. Once these updates have stopped, the plan is apply

chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I've been following the chromium-browser saga a bit, who has ended up with the removal of the package from testing [1,2]. While I'm a chromium-browser user myself, and hence I'm saddened of seeing it go, I'm not here to question the choice as I'm sure it's been made as the right one and that it

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:48:49PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [3] A question you might have at this point is: why you bother about Chromium and not other packages?. Well, I do bother about all packages and I'm just trying to anticipate questions I'll might be asked as soon as

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 02:11:03PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:48:49PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [3] A question you might have at this point is: why you bother about Chromium and not other packages?. Well, I do bother about all packages and I'm just

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 13:48:49 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I've been following the chromium-browser saga a bit, who has ended up with the removal of the package from testing [1,2]. While I'm a chromium-browser user myself, and hence I'm saddened of seeing it go, I'm not here to

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
On 09/08/2010 03:22 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: I don't have any reason to believe the new version won't have the same problem 2 months (or a year) from now Note that this isn't a chromium specific issue, please see the opened issues in webkit:

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
On 09/08/2010 03:22 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: and as far as I know neither the security team nor the stable release managers usually accept that kind of changes in stable. If they say they'll be happy to accept random chromium code dumps in released squeeze, then I guess we can let it back

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:48:49 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I've been following the chromium-browser saga a bit, who has ended up with the removal of the package from testing [1,2]. While I'm a chromium-browser user myself, and hence I'm saddened of seeing it go, I'm not here to question the

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:58:17 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: On 09/08/2010 03:22 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: I don't have any reason to believe the new version won't have the same problem 2 months (or a year) from now Note that this isn't a chromium specific issue, please see the opened

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:23:59 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: On 09/08/2010 04:15 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: That isn't a very good list wrt to squeeze's webkit since that includes the multitude of lenny issues. That was the point, the number of webkit opened issues in lenny. That isn't

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-08 16:10 +0200, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:48:49 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I've been following the chromium-browser saga a bit, who has ended up with the removal of the package from testing [1,2]. While I'm a chromium-browser user myself, and hence I'm

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
On 09/08/2010 04:26 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: That isn't really a fair comparison. I campaigned (unsuccessfully) to keep webkit out of lenny at the time since it was so experimental/unsupportable. Thus I had no interest in supporting that. However, I'm planning to help support webkit in

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:55:40 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-09-08 16:10 +0200, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:48:49 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I've been following the chromium-browser saga a bit, who has ended up with the removal of the package from testing [1,2].

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:02:33 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: On 09/08/2010 04:26 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: That isn't really a fair comparison. I campaigned (unsuccessfully) to keep webkit out of lenny at the time since it was so experimental/unsupportable. Thus I had no interest in

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
On 09/08/2010 05:04 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: I think it is indeed supportable now for squeeze. What was changed from lenny to now? Cheers, Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Teodor MICU
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-09-08 16:10 +0200, Michael Gilbert wrote: I think that this need is justification to declare backports officially supported by the debian project.  Thus when asked this question, you can point to the fact that chromium

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:09:32 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: On 09/08/2010 05:04 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: I think it is indeed supportable now for squeeze. What was changed from lenny to now? The are now many very usable webkit frontends, which I can use on a daily basis, so I now have

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 08 septembre 2010 à 17:09 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano a écrit : On 09/08/2010 05:04 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: I think it is indeed supportable now for squeeze. What was changed from lenny to now? What has changed is that webkit is widely deployed inside and outside Debian, and

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Gilbert wrote: I think that this need is justification to declare backports officially supported by the debian project. Thus when asked this question, you can point to the fact that chromium is indeed supported on stable, just via a different model than folks are used to. Do you

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:17:55PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 08 septembre 2010 à 17:09 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano a écrit : On 09/08/2010 05:04 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: I think it is indeed supportable now for squeeze. What was changed from lenny to now? What has

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:14:33AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: [2] Chromium or iceweasel; take your pick since backports is being suggested as a delivery mechanism for both. There is a difference with Iceweasel, though, in that squeeze will ship with Iceweasel. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:14:33 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: I think that this need is justification to declare backports officially supported by the debian project. Thus when asked this question, you can point to the fact that chromium is indeed supported on stable, just

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
On 09/08/2010 05:15 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: I now have interest in using webkit itself, and thus have interest in closing security issues; whereas with lenny there is no usable frontend, and thus no reason for anyone to be interested in security support. I think it is more honest to say

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:42:37 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: On 09/08/2010 05:15 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: I now have interest in using webkit itself, and thus have interest in closing security issues; whereas with lenny there is no usable frontend, and thus no reason for anyone to be

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Gilbert wrote: A an option in the installer like volatile/security should address a lot of this concern. Unless it installs the package from backports, the most the installer can do is eliminate one or two of the three or four things users must do to use it. All my comments about user

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:19:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: A an option in the installer like volatile/security should address a lot of this concern. Unless it installs the package from backports, the most the installer can do is eliminate one or two of the three or

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:19:40 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: A an option in the installer like volatile/security should address a lot of this concern. Unless it installs the package from backports, the most the installer can do is eliminate one or two of the three or four

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:22:29PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: from now, and as far as I know neither the security team nor the stable release managers usually accept that kind of changes in stable. If they say they'll be happy to accept random chromium code dumps in released squeeze, The

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:57:28 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:19:40 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: A an option in the installer like volatile/security should address a lot of this concern. Unless it installs the package from backports, the most the

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 14:15:26 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: As for the need for pinning, that can be solved by judiciously choosing package names. The current instructions say to append '~bpo' to all packages, which makes backport versions older than stable versions. For chromium and

Re: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:30:21 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 14:15:26 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: As for the need for pinning, that can be solved by judiciously choosing package names. The current instructions say to append '~bpo' to all packages, which makes