On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:32:28AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Currently, the way that chromium is being maintained is far from the
> standards that we expect in Debian.
>
> A considerable number of reasonable bug reports (like, for instance the one
> for enabling sharing one's desktop in this age of pandemic and many people
> having to work from home) are not answered or ignored.
>
> Besides that, there is a skeleton of a version 84 in the repo, but the
> package manager (and https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=chromium)
> doesn't know about it.
>
> Going even further, Google Chrome (which I really, really don't want to
> install on my systems) is already at version 86 according to both
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_version_history and
> https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html
>
> Furthermore, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium lists, at this moment,
> 100 security issues in sid, buster and bullseye.
>
> Honestly, if one can't keep up with updates to their packages, at least make
> a call for a group of buddy developers to help (the package tracker doesn't
> show any kind of RFH bug open) or find someone else that is willing to
> maintain the package.
I'm raising this bug to RC severity, we should only include Chromium in Bullseye
if we have more maintainence person power available to make sure it gets updated
in unstable and stable in a timely manner
Michael has been heroically keeping up with this beast of a codebase for years,
but we clearly need a broader base to sustain it going forward.
Cheers,
Moritz
