Paul, I /am/ one of the Debian Qt WebEngine maintainers, and I also submit code to the upstream Qt project.
The Salsa link you included appears to be a bit misinformed about security support for Qt WebEngine in Debian. For more accurate information, I would point you to this link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032794[1] Bug fixes for Qt WebEngine are backported every couple of months by upstream Qt: https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.13-released[2] There are a number of other browsers based on Qt WebEngine currently in Debian. A non- exhaustive list includes the following: Konqueror Falkon qutebrowser Angelfish If you are interested in more information about the subject, I have a section of Privacy Browser’s handbook dedicated to the subject which is included in the index.docbook in the .deb. Soren On Tuesday, March 14, 2023 6:19:44 PM MST you wrote: > On Sat, 2023-03-11 at 14:41 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > * URL : https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-pc/ > > privacybrowser - web browser that respects your privacy > > I note that this browser depends on Qt WebEngine, all the Qt based web > engines are not security supported in Debian. I encourage you to switch > to a browser engine that is security supported, or discuss with the > Debian and upstream Qt web engine maintainers to add such support. > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-security-support/-/blob/master/securi > ty-support-limited > * qtwebengine-opensource-src: No security support upstream and > backports not feasible, only for use on trusted content > * qtwebkit: No security support upstream and backports not feasible, > only for use on trusted content > * qtwebkit-opensource-src: No security support upstream and backports > not feasible, only for use on trusted content > * kde4libs: khtml has no security support upstream, only for use on > trusted content > * khtml: khtml has no security support upstream, only for use on > trusted content, see #1004293 -- Soren Stoutner so...@stoutner.com -------- [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032794 [2] https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.13-released
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