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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie
From:       Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud () hypra ! fr>
Date:       2017-09-29 10:19:05
Message-ID: 73b24e4a-39e8-b5a8-eebb-2faf24d5e920 () hypra ! fr
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Le 28/09/2017 à 19:39, Daniel Bareiro a écrit  :
> Hi, Sven.
> 
> On 28/09/17 14:13, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 
>>> In the last DSA for the chromium-browser package (DSA-3985-1) I noticed
>>> that the updates were released for stable, testing and unstable but not
>>> for oldstable. I think the same thing happened with the previous update.
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm missing something and Chromium on Jessie is no longer getting
>>> security updates?
> 
>> It seems that the maintainer is overworked and cannot provide Jessie
>> updates for chromium anymore[1].  Somebody else said he might be looking
>> at it[2], but that was six weeks ago and nothing happened so far.
>>
>> So while it is not clear when chromium in jessie will be EOL'ed, it
>> seems advisable to switch to some other browser for now (if you want a
>> package from Debian, firefox-esr is the only option).
>>
>>
>> 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2017/07/msg00009.html
>> 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2017/08/msg00010.html
> 
> Thanks for the observation and the references. I was not aware of this.
> 
> Here I am using both Firefox and Chromium since sometimes I need to test
> some things in both browsers (for example some WebRTC application such
> as Jitsi Meet).
> 
> Thanks for your reply.

You can also install Google Chrome from the Google Debian repository. 
It's up-to-date and it works for Jessie.

Best regards.
-- 
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

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