Hi, On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 05:23:50PM +0100, Michel Le Bihan wrote: [...] > The window for getting in Bullseye will close soon and this issue is > blocking. Will you be able to maintain Chromium in Bullseye? I can help > with it if needed.
Thanks for you both which were involved in the last two rounds of updates for chromium. To make it supportable in bullseye the problem is still that due to the hight flux of issues which appear in chromium, one person (with uploading permissions) commiting either as part of the team or commiting to regularly sponsor uploads, would not be enought. As said there is a high and frequent flux of issues appering, that means if we only have one such person, and the person temporarily have to step from chromium maintenance we run in the same situation as we right now had for buster. For redundancy there should be at least a second person available up for doing so. The task is quite time consuming and so cannot fall back at some point due to need to the security team members. it can be for instance Mike Gilbert (as member of the team) and Mattia (not part of it, but commiting to sponsoring) to make this sort of commitment. Continuing including chromium in bullseye might be the most desirable option indeed, but running in the situation where in the stable release is sitting a old version, would be worse than not having it and users for instance just installing it from flathub. Hope this clarifies enough the security team perspective. Regards, Salvatore
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