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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable
From:       Camaleón <noelamac () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-05-29 16:57:12
Message-ID: pan.2011.05.29.16.57.10 () gmail ! com
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On Sun, 29 May 2011 10:26:25 -0400, Dan wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 May 2011 20:41:05 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mi, 25 mai 11, 16:00:07, Camaleón wrote:
> > > > And it's not me who thinks that way, but Mozilla who tagged it so.
> > > 
> > > And why should we care (as long as we still get security support, even
> > > if it's only from Debian).
> > 
> > Anyone who estimates his/her security should care.
> > 
> > We all know (or should know) that any piece of software that is not
> > being actively developed (upstream) is a security risk. Yes, Debian
> > security team can catch and patch some flaws but not all. Heck, they're
> > good but not super-heroes with extra-powers... or are they? ;-)
> 
> That is a good point. What do you think that it is more secure to use
> chromium from the stable repositories or chrome from google's
> repositories? 

Well, the fact is that nowadays there must be more users running Chrome 
(for whatever OS) than users running Debian's Chromium so it's my  
understanding that more people using a program gives a higher chance for 
more bugs to be catched.

> Do you think that the chromium version which is at the stable
> repositories is secure enough?

It should be. Look at the changelog, it's plenty of bug fixes:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/chromium-browser_6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze4/changelog


So, while you don't get any additional feature/enhancement that could  
have been added to the latest Chrome relase (11.x), you are still getting 
security patches.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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